[ADXA] VU4 UPDATE

[LennyK5OVC at wmconnect.com]

Subj:   [DX-NEWS] VU4 news for 0600Z Dec 20 
Date:   12/20/2004 1:18:09 AM Central Standard Time 
From:    k4vud at hotmail.com (Charles Harpole)
Sender:    DX-News-owner at njdxa.org
To:    k4vud at hotmail.com, dx-news at njdxa.org
    
    


Hello determined DXers...

VU4 team is working constantly for you....   Dec. 20 at 0600Z:

1.  I will explain LoTW to the team and hope later all logs can be loaded 
there.... today, the logs are entered by hand writing onto good old 
fashioned paper.  A SWL volunteer is then typing them into a computer, but 
the hand logs will be kept to solve any questions that may come up as QSL 
requests come in.  No one here can take time off to search for any one call 
... pse do not ask.

2.  The team is very sensitive to the needs of the East Coast and Mid West 
USA and NA, too.  However, Bharathi is on 14.190 SSB nearly continuously.  
She sleeps about 0100 to 0500 daily Andaman time.  Saraha apparently does 
not sleep (altho they bought him a mattress for the dorm room he is in).  
All prop info I receive, I relay to the team.

3.  I am saving all the great messages of congrats to the team and will 
print them out and present them in a booklet to the team later....  thanks 
for understanding and sending the nice words....

4.  Better to wait a few more days until the QSL situation sinks in.... that 
is, the team will understand the size of that job and the issue of mailing 
green stamps and come to terms with all that ..... I am urging them to make 
a final decision and announce it soon on how best to send in QSLs to the VU4 
op.

5.  Any donations that arrived at my mailing address lately are being held 
by the 32732 post office awaiting my return to Fla.  Don't worry, I will 
bundle the donations and forward them to NIAR and Bharathi in January.  And, 
YES, you can still make a donation.  The team is deficit financing this 
operation due to the speed of its activation and thus there was no time to 
fully apply for ham foundation and club grants.  Maybe that can be done yet 
so that the deficit can be paid off.  No one is living high on the hog over 
here... and as many can hear, the team is ON THE AIR, not basking in the 
tropical sun on the beach.  Help them out, eh?

Now, don't you love ham radio !!!

73,

Charles Harpole  VU3CHE
k4vud at hotmail.com