I have recently learned that there has been some consideration given to seeking LoTW help from outside the halls of 225. Perhaps help can be provided by some of our members, many of whom toil daily in the fields of the IT world. One suggestion that I have received is that an LoTW Advisory Board can be recruited from among the many experts who also contest and DX.

One of my members suggests:

"LoTW is absolutely a victim of it's own success.

I have been involved with several web app database LoTW types of systems
and they are difficult to scale as they grow without significant
investment and rewrite.

Let's either be patient or put our money where our mouth is.

Perhaps our Division Director can suggest a LoTW Advisory Board to assist."

Others have suggested that ClubLog and eQSL can manage uploads following a major contest, literally in seconds, while LoTW bogs down for days and weeks while it works through the queue of logs awaiting processing. Another has suggested that encrypted entries in massive numbers are managed quite nicely by numerous financial institutions. ClubLog and eQSL are not funded to the extent that the financial institutions are. Is there something we can do with outside help, or more financial support, that would allow us to provide adequate service levels for our members who depend on LoTW? I don't see this as a problem with the members of our IT staff. Can it be that "we" do not fund LoTW hardware, software, and staffing sufficiently?

Bob Vallio -- W6RGG