2026 Challenge Rules and Bugs

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The distance is incorrect on my recent chases, maybe I have the wrong Lat / Lon but I’ve checked it on a few different sites. A summit around 20km from me is showing at over 200km. Is there anything I can do to resolve this or shall I just wait for updates to the system?

Thanks in advance

73 de Mick M0MDA

You had set your location as somewhere in the middle of the North Sea. That would be OK if you lived on an oil rig/gas platform but ISTR you live near Leeds. I have added the missing -ve sign to your longitude in your home location and in your chase and it’s showing 23km for you now.

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Is there no check that the chaser and activator entries for a QSO have the same distance?

I see there is one chaser in England who has worked one summit at 7591km.

That’s brilliant, thanks so much for that. When I added the - it said it was incorrect and wouldn’t save it, 73

In the words of the Grail Night “He chose poorly”.

If you knew it should be -ve and you were having issues entering a -ve number (could be user error, could be software error) and you left it +ve then you knew you were in the wrong place. Yet you failed to tell us of the problem so we could fix it. :person_facepalming:

No. But as has been said several times, part of the rational for a challenge involving distances etc. was to give the GIS code a code workout and also to get the scabby location data made much less scabby :slight_smile:

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The view of the Activator Challenge page is loading forever…

Database on the egde of failure?

Taking <1sec to render the page for me.

DB CPU load looks OK, the big peak is when we write out an approx 10GB backup file.

There was a burst of many simultaneous connections. The load was sitting around 8 connections per node and shot up to around 50 connections/node for 5 mins. That’s indicative of something bashing the system a little which may have explained why you got no results.

I am getting the same, just shows loading.
Tried earlier this afternoon and just checked now, still the same.
I am using Safari

Edit: chaser results working ok.

Yes, bad clicking and I looked at the chaser page. Now everyone will be checking to see if it’s working for them making whatever is unhappy a lot more unhappy.

EDIT:
There’s nothing locked on the DB engine, it’s working away and doesn’t seem abnormally loaded. The API servers are spinning away serving requests and other DB pages are loading.

Phase of the moon? Putin? Trump? I’ll wait for Andrew to awaken and see what he thinks.

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W6 is experiencing the same issue. Did we break it?

At work we used to joke that a cosmic ray shower was the cause of a one-off inexplicable problem that was now working ok. Turns out it wasn’t so far fetched.

SEU is the ‘NASAism’ for them; single-event upsets.

I have had the privilege of programming for hardware designed to operate in neutron, γ-ray and x-ray rich environments. Considering why hardware was designed the way it was and the implications was somewhat chilling and disconcerting.