Re: Grid chase 2022
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Dave,
Here's the real point... why bother tying these events to LOTW at all if you have a resource crisis? The operating event should be the primary focus.
If LOTW is an issue, then use the Award Checkers through ARRL affiliated clubs to validate applications and TRUST people to attach a simple log on their application for the reward. Longer term they can submit their logs to LOTW outside of busy periods to
even out demand load.
If something happened in 2013 that still bothers you, I'd recommend some outside the box solution brainstormibg instead of being a "Dr. No".
73,
Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
201.314.6964
W2TTT@...
From: ARRL-Awards@... <ARRL-Awards@...> on behalf of Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2021 11:56:48 AM To: ARRL-Awards@... <ARRL-Awards@...> Subject: Re: [ARRL-Awards] Grid chase 2022 While I have not actively pursued these events, I have enjoyed many interesting QSOs that resulted from them. From an objective
viewpoint, why should anyone oppose such activities and their promotion? + I opposed them in 2013 because they diverted the ARRL's two LoTW developers from the higher priority task re-implementing the LoTW Server to improve its robustness and performance. Recall that a latent defect in the Server triggered by increased usage in late 2012 brought LoTW to a dead stop. Diverting LoTW's developers from the task of preventing a recurrence of this event to tasks that would increase the probability of recurrence (by attracting more users) was a demonstration that the Board had learned nothing. Frankly, it all sounds like good clean fun with a laundry list of positives and negligible/no negatives. + Right, if you don't consider the increased usage triggering another fatal performance defect and LoTW being canceled by a frustrated Board of Directors to be a negative. Fortunately, that didn't happen - likely, as I said, due to TQSL's duplicate rejection. + Were development resources available now, I would not object to their resuscitating NPOTA or the Grid Chase. But there are no LoTW development resources now, so the point is moot. |
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