[Dx-qsl] VK9MT on LoTW

Sun Apr 20 15:50:03 EDT 2014

So Danny how would you raise the cash for Heard?
Everybody so far has told me that raising money is bad.   I'm waiting for
somebody to tell me how to raise $400,000

Tom
gm4fdm

On Apr 20, 2014 6:39 PM, "Danny Douglas" <n7dc at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Any expedition, or individual who demands money for a QSL, be it LOTW, or
> physical card, will be disqualified from DXCC.  It is against the rules to
> do so.  After saying that, we have the EP operators today, all telling us
> it costs 10 bucks plus an IRC to get their card.  They get away with it,
> because no one wants to stand up and tell them they cant, when, at the same
> time, they are telling us that their government places that rule on them.
> Doesnt make sense.  Money PLUS and IRC  .  So if they can mail it with an
> IRC, why the money.  It appears to me that maybe the government is getting
> into that?  They should be stricken from the brotherhood of ham radio.
> Drop it as an entity.  But, as far as expeditions, yes something needs to
> be done, but some will also say what needs to be done is drop those
> entities, which do not have permanent residents.  Frankly, they are NOT
> countries.
> Dan Douglas  N7DC
>
>  Tom Wylie <thomasgwylie at gmail.com>
>  Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:51 AM
> Well said Steve.    Some of these arm chair DXers just dont seem to get
> it!
>
> The next HEARD ISLAND expedition might well be the first $1,000,000
> expedition.   I believe one of the reasons it has been
> postponed is that its proving difficult to raise the necessary finance.
>
> Not every millionaire ham who can afford to go is a good operator.   There
> are many very poor hams who cannot afford such
> a trip are great operators.
>
> At the moment, it you look at all the major expeditions that have taken
> place recently.    It is always the same Foundations, DX Groups and Clubs
> who support
> them.    If you look at the list of personal sponsors,  many of those too
> are the same guys time after time who put their hands in their
> pockets.
>
> At our recent Scottish GMDX Convention I was proud to have met Ralph K0IR
> who presented the FT5ZM expedition.    Over dinner we discussed
> funding.   Ralph concluded that, taking into account was I said above, the
> first $150,000 is reasonable easy and sort of guaranteed.
> Its what comes after that is difficult.
>
> There are many hams out there sitting in fron of the very latest rig or
> rigs,  with big antenna farms, running big big amplifiers,
> yet if you ask them for $10 bucks its like world war three breaking out.
>
> The question for me is - HOW DO WE SPREAD THE COST AMONG THE GREATER
> AMATEUR COMMUNITY - MOST OF WHO HAVE SPONSORED NOTHING IN THEIR LIVES!
>
> Asking or even pleading for donations just falls on deaf ears. Amateur
> Radio enthusiasts must be among the most stingy, selfish and tight
> fisted bunch around.   So how do we get their dough?
>
> Up until now I have always tried to keep QSLing apart from expedition
> funding as I believe that if an expedition has to rely on profit from QSL
> activities, then it is not on a sound financial footing.   However,
> expeditions like Heard,  Bouvet,  Peter 1, Crozet are in a different
> league.
>
> Perhaps it time now to put the foot down and make a plain statement.
> There were I believe around 40,000 unique QSOs with Amsterdam.   If
> each of these guys and gals had to part with ten measely bucks, then the
> organisers could have raised $400,000.
>
> So, why dont the Heard guys just come out and say it:
> _
> __QSLs for Heard will cost $10  for 1 or 21  QSOs, via OQRS._ That is the
> only way I can think of, to spread the cost around the community.
>
>
> 73 de Tom
>
> GM4FDM
>
>
>
>
>
> If anybody knows another way of spreading the cost - let's hear it!
>
>
>
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>  Joe Subich, W4TV <w4tv at subich.com>
>  Friday, April 18, 2014 6:07 PM
>
> Which is, of course, absurd.  VK9MT/M0URX can respond to OQRS with an
> upload to LotW in less than two weeks.  One would expect other major
> DXpeditions to be able to do so as well ... the OQRS QSOs are already
> "matched" and in a form that can be signed/uploaded with little effort
> when they receive them.
>
> If it's all about the money, once a DXPedition has received an OQRS
> request they are either going to receive an extra donation in the mail
> or they are not but waiting to upload for QSOs that are already matched
> isn't going to increase the donation.  If anything, the longer it takes
> for a DXPedition to upload the QORS QSOs to LotW, the less likely I am
> to make an extra donation
>
> 73,
>
>   ... Joe, W4TV
>
>
> On 4/18/2014 5:08 PM, dx-qsl-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:02:47 -0500
> From: Nelson Moyer<ku0a at mchsi.com> <ku0a at mchsi.com>
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> They're waiting for most of the online and direct contributions to
>
> > come in before uploading to LoTW. Typically, DXpeditions following
> > that practice wait almost a year before uploading logs.
>
>
> Nelson, KU0A
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