Here's another very upset LOTW user and member of the NJDXA as well as Contester, and DXer in the Hudson Division. What is being done about this? Joyce KA2ANF -----Original Message----- From: Les Kalmus [mailto:w2lk@bk-lk.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 10:27 AM To: Joyce Birmingham; Hudzik, Bill; Frank Fallon Subject: LoTW update This post was received late last night. If the author is correct, everyone involved with creating LoTW should be fired. The last thing anyone should be doing is writing their own database when there are many extraordinarily powerful ones available, some free. Joyce, Bill, Take this as an official demand on my part for a detailed explanation of what was actually done to create LoTW. Did they write a proprietary database? If this is true, it represents a colossal waste of money and resources and makes those who were behind this look like amateurs. If so, what will be done to replace it with a commercially supported one? Why in this day and age of cheap hardware does the community get shortchanged on storage space? Who is responsible to make sure there are adequate processing resources available so this never happens as it never would in a well run data center? Answers please. Les Kalmus W2LK 6 Re: LoTW Update - what's really wrong Wed Nov 7, 2012 6:18 pm (PST) . Posted by: "N4NW" n4nw I learned today that the whole LotW mess is because the system crashed when LotW ran out of 'space' to store the data! This resulted in the system shut down. Although additional storage has been added because the two databases (LotW and DXCC) crashed the databases have to be rebuilt. Unfortunately, the ARRL, when it originally created LotW a proprietary database program unique to LotW was created. Why? I don't know write to your ARRL Director and demand an explanation. In any case I am lead to believe that as soon as the database is rebuilt access will resume. My contact assured me that no log data was lost as multiple backup are made - it remains to be seen how true this is. What is important about this incident is it would seem, as some have expressed, that monitoring LotW is not a priority. Communications by ARRL members to their specific ARRL DIRECTOR will have the most impact on elevating LotW to a higher lever of support and attention. Tom Gregory, N4NW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]