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

[Steven Wheatley KU9C]

One further thing...I get 40 emails a day with all sorts of quesitons regarding QSLs.  If I answer, let a lone read all of them, I lose a significant time.  I've gone more or less 'radio silent'....choosing to get the cards out....sorry about that...but, if i spend time replying, 2 or three folks get their cards late for each response.

73


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Steve Wheatley KU9C 
PO Box 31
Morristown NJ  07963-0031 
U.S.A. 

email:  ku9c@ku9c.com 
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---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Arsk0jn@aol.com
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:03:20 EST

>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
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