Fw: [Dx-qsl] Woo Hoo! PW0T at last!!

[Arsk0jn@aol.com]

Hi Robert,
Steve asked us to write him personally and not "criticize" him in public. On 
January 4th I sent him this e-mail:

Hi Steve,
You had previously mentioned that you planned to have all the PW0T direct qsl 
cards out by the end of the year. Guess that didn't happen. Can you give me 
some idea when I might expect my PW0T qsl cards -- particularly the RTTY 
contacts?
Regards and have a Happy New Year,
Joe, K0JN

I have not received a reply. I guess it's easier to ignore people if your 
questions are not put out over the net.

What is really troubling is what is put out. Last August 14th Steve gave this 
status report:
Status:  I am attempting to catch up with YA5T, and a majority of cards for 
QSOs before June have been answered.  PW0T cards, I've currently mailed over 
10,000 QSL cards, and roughly 4500 envelopes.  At one point there was some 
20,000 plus envelopes at my QTH, so you can see how the progress is going.

If you assume he handles 200-300 envelopes a day, as he keeps saying, and he 
still had 20,000 envelopes on August 14th and averaged just 250 per day he 
would have done 36,500 envelopes since August 14 almost double the total he 
had on hand before then. Yet there are still a lot of us who sent SASE's back 
in March (for PW0T only) that are still waiting for cards.

My complaint isn't that he's slow. It's that you can't get a straight answer 
out of the guy. I think the amateur radio community deserves at least that 
much--even it they don't get their cards in a timely manner.

...And Steve, before you reply that I'd don't know what's involved with 
handling a big dxpedition qsling, let me remind you that Bill, AK0A; Alasn, 
KI7WO and myself handled all the envelopes we received for the TI9M operation 
(16,200 envelopes) in twelve days after getting the qsl cards from the 
printers, including sending you your cards for the 12 and 15 meter contacts. 

So Steve, how about giving those of us still waiting some straight answers 
for a change?
We're entitled to they.
Respectfully.
Joe Nemecek, K0JN