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

[Phil Whitchurch]

That needed saying Steve.

Your experiences mirror my own.

73 to all

In message <200301092352.AA457834756@ku9c.com>, Steven Wheatley KU9C 
<ku9cqslmanager@ku9c.com> writes
>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
>
>---------------------------
>Steve Wheatley KU9C
>PO Box 31
>Morristown NJ  07963-0031
>U.S.A.
>
>email:  ku9c@ku9c.com
>http://www.ku9c.com/
>
>
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Eugene A. Kostromin" <ua4rz@tbit.ru>
>Reply-To: "Eugene A. Kostromin" <ua4rz@tbit.ru>
>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 
>>Aac>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 
>>Aac>cards for
>>Aac> QSOs before June have been answered.  PW0T cards, I've currently 
>>Aac>mailed over
>>Aac> 10,000 QSL cards, and roughly 4500 envelopes.  At one point there 
>>Aac>was some
>>Aac> 20,000 plus envelopes at my QTH, so you can see how the progress 
>>Aac>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
>>ua4rz@tbit.ru
>>http://www.qsl.net/ua4rz/
>>
>>
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Phil Whitchurch
G3SWH

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