Re[2]: Fw: [Dx-qsl] Woo Hoo! PW0T at last!!

Thu Jan 9 23:57:02 2003

Eugene,

I took a few moments and found your envelope.  I actually have two of them.

Let me suggest three things you could do to help me (and likely other managers) greatly

1.  Do not request the same qso in every envelope you send.  I have two envelopes here, at least, with some requests for the same cards/qsos.

2.  In one of your envelopes, I found cards for, roughly, 6 separate stations.  This takes 6 runs through my QSL process.  Part of this is my fault, I manage a LOT of stations.  At the moment, I surely wish I did not.  I know that it is expensive to send QSLs to me...but with the quantity of cards sent....
that will take some time.

3.  WHile I'm not sure this applies to you specifically, I find this typical of a lot of hams, and in particular, DX hams.  DO not request cards for bands/modes you have.  It amazes me how many will toss in a wp2z 20 meter qso with PW0T....and when I do the WP2Z qsl, I find a 20 meter card issued 2 times before...for various contest qsos.  NOt only does this take another sort....but...how many WP2 20 meter qsos does a person need.

Folks, I'm going back to sorting and stuffing envelopes.  But, as the topic was brought to this public forum, I feel it's worthwhile to use the opportunity to share what can really slow things up..and what you can do to help

73
Steve

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

email:  [email protected] 
http://www.ku9c.com/

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Eugene A. Kostromin" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "Eugene A. Kostromin" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:40:26 +0000

>Hello  Joe
>
>10/01/2003 you wrote :
>
>Aac> Hi Robert,
>Aac> Steve asked us to write him personally and not "criticize" him in public. On
>Aac> January 4th I sent him this e-mail:
>
>Aac> Status:  I am attempting to catch up with YA5T, and a majority of cards for
>Aac> QSOs before June have been answered.  PW0T cards, I've currently mailed over
>Aac> 10,000 QSL cards, and roughly 4500 envelopes.  At one point there was some
>Aac> 20,000 plus envelopes at my QTH, so you can see how the progress is going.
>
>Aac> Joe Nemecek, K0JN
>
>I'm and about 50 (which I know) Russian/CIS hams are waiting PW0T and
>YA5T QSLs almost one year. I think, it is not direct service, but a
>kind a "bureau" service (so slow) for KU9C's 100s clients, but so expensive
>for us, DXmen, $2 for ONE "via the "buro" QSL.
>I am still waiting from Steve : BQ9P -80m, 4W/N6FF -80m, 4w/K7BV -40M,
>PW0S +RTTY, PW0T +RTTY, YA5T+160m -not so bad collection to wait?,
>plus few not so important for me DXs.
>Is it not a buro service? And such as in the buro - you could not
>know did he received or answered to your QSL.
>Recently I got 5X1T from ON6TT and EL2WW from ON4WW direct after 4...6
>weeks of waiting and no answer from ON5NT (their QSL-mgr) during 2
>years. Have anybody know the way, how we can receive QSLs directly
>from operators of PW0T, YA5T, PW0S, BQ9P???
>=73=
>
>Good luck  UA4RZ
>Eugene A. Kostromin
>[email protected]
>http://www.qsl.net/ua4rz/
>
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