[Dx-qsl] K1B: Mission Accomplished

[Steven Wheatley KU9C]

AMEN Ron!  If the ham community had more folks that give tirelessly of their
time like Nenad (he does a GREAT deal of work with the VE bureau, and helps
me a lot on that front) not to mention personally helping folks get these
cards.....this hobby would be even more enjoyable!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
To: <dx-qsl@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] K1B: Mission Accomplished


> With this tempest-in-a-teapot at full boil, let's not forget something
here:
>
> All Nenad did originally was offer to hand-carry the QSL requests that
> included cash donations & personally deliver them direct to Hrane.  This
was
> being done for the sole purpose of avoiding envelope pilfering by whatever
> postal authorities the envelopes came in contact with.  Nothing further
was
> promised nor expected.
>
> I was part of the K3AIR syndicate to send a registered package to RZ3AA
for
> our SSB cards, to make sure that they arrived.  Believe me, I'm much
happier
> that Mike sent our package to Nenad instead and that the extra money to
pay
> for postage and registration and so forth instead went direct to the
> DXpedition!
>
> I certainly was not expecting preferential treatment, and I would have
been
> just as happy if the cards had come direct from Europe instead of Canada.
> And I'm willing to bet that the cost for Nenad to mail the cards from
Canada
> would save the K1B guys a few bucks, which could be put to offsetting
> expenses (like getting cards printed and labels made up and so on).
> Efficiently managing the costs of the DXpedition keeps the costs down,
which
> makes future DXpeditions affordable -- and I'm all for that.
>
> I think the community owes Nenad thanks for making the offer and following
> through on it, something that was above and beyond the "strict call of
> duty," rather than take potshots at how the cards were handled.
>
> Besides, the important thing is that the K1B cards are back from the
printer
> and being processed, right?
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> "And they give you cash,
> which is just as good as money!"
> Yogi Berra, AFLAC Commercial, 2002
>
>
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>
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>