[Dx-qsl] Peter One

[Jerry Keller]

Absolutely right on the money. Well stated
73, Jerry K3BZ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter W2IRT" <w2irt at comcast.net>
To: "rayfri" <rayfri at highstream.net>; "Danny Douglas" <n7dc at vabb.com>
Cc: <DX-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Peter One


> At 04:41 PM 06/01/2006, rayfri wrote:
>>This "expectation" of "payment" of some sort seems to be all part of 
>>today's societal philosophy of "what's in it for ME?"....
>>
>>If I were to decide to go someplace and conduct a DXpedition, I wouldnt 
>>ask anyone for "contributions" and wouldnt expect to get "paid" in some 
>>manner for a QSL card in return.    After all, it's a HOBBY not a 
>>profession.
>
> Costs have risen a lot since back then. For example, how many DXpeditions 
> to remote QTHs in the 60s and 70s had a full-time helicopter onboard their 
> exclusive-use ship for 2 or 3 weeks? Things Cost Money today, and a lot of 
> things that were taken for granted back then are expensive now. I'm 
> curious -- did operations to Peter1, Bouvet, etc back "in the day" carry 
> yagis, 2 kW+ amps and state-of-the-art stations for 8 or 10 operating 
> positions and make 80,000 QSOs or more back then? How many cards did the 
> pioneering DXpeditions send out, and how much was postage back then?
>
> Peter 1 supposedly cost well north of *half* *a* *million* *dollars*. They 
> did it for us, yes, but should they be expected to fund that all on their 
> own? If Peter 1 had been a low-cost "seat-of-the-pants" DXpedition instead 
> of the Major Operation it became, how many of us, "The Deserving," would 
> have cleaned them out on 8 or 9 bands and three modes? If you want 
> first-class operations with top-notch operators, it will continue to cost 
> some serious coin in the future. If we don't support these operations 
> through donations, memorabilia, etc, we won't have many more opportunities 
> like that to put ultra-rare top-ten desolate places in our logs on 20+ 
> band-modes.
>
> While I'm indeed thankful that I got my card already, I couldn't care less 
> if it was the last one they got around to sending -- even with my donation 
> cheque and now my purchase of their DVD.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter,
> W2IRT
>
>
> &quot;Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've 
> got...till it's gone.&quot; from Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) but also 
> true about QSL.NET if more users don't open their wallets and help 
> financially. Please contribute TODAY !!
>