u/KvdHout

LoTW outage: check your uploaded QSOs

LoTW outage: check your uploaded QSOs

LoTW has an interesting message after login:

>May 8, 2026: LoTW outage, 8 May 2026

>LoTW experienced an outage at approximately 0030Z on May 8, 2026. This outage lasted for about 5-1/2 hours. To recover from that problem, IT staff had to restore the LoTW database from a recent backup. It is possible if you submitted a log around the time of the outage that the log may not appear in the database. You can check the "Your Activity" page of LoTW to verify that it does appear. If it does not, simply resubmit the log.

Checking the "Most recent QSOs" and comparing to my own log I found some qsos between 6 May 2026 and 8 May 2026 seemed to be missing so I uploaded them again. But it would have been nice if they had told what the database checkpoint was linked to that 'recent backup'.

Found via https://mastodon.radio/@kconkas/116544259711702024

u/KvdHout — 3 days ago