Sorry for the delay in responding this morning.

In short, the LOTW system ran out of space last night. No data was lost. We have the hardware in place and are in the process of expanding the storage (virtually) to accommodate the ever expanding needs of the system. At the same time as we expand the space, IT is putting automatic alarms in place that will identify storage issues prior to the last minute.

The system should be back on-line early this afternoon.

73,

Barry J. Shelley, N1VXY

Chief Financial Officer

ARRL, Inc.

The National Association for Amateur Radio

(860) 594-0212

www.arrl.org

From: arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of James F. Boehner, MD
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 11:17 PM
To: Edgar, William (Dir, Atlantic Div); arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:21178] LoTW - fails, year after year

Confirmed.

Went to www.arrl.org/lotw and clicked on “Log in here” and received the message listed below.

’73 de JIM N2ZZ

From: arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Bill Edgar
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 9:46 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:21177] FW: LoTW - fails, year after year

Are we having issues with LoTW again?

Got this message this evening from a Maxim Society member in the Atlantic Division.

Thanks.

- Bill N3LLR

I am sorry to continue my rant, year after year, however as long as the ARRL Director’s fail to take the appropriate action to fix the root problems at HQ – nothing will change. The Director’s continue to accept sub par performance from the people who are paid to do a job and consistently do not deliver.

LoTW one again is a laughing example of poor management. eQSL processes more logs with ease.

Here is what LoTW says now:

Fatal error: initializeLOTWDB: -709 - CONNECT: (cannot connect to server socket): General database error [initializeLOTWDB: -709 - CONNECT: (cannot connect to server socket)]