[EIDXA] Early LoTW question

[Jim Spencer]

I know that other DX clubs include a membership list with a donation in the 
expectation that ALL members would be included in any "special handling" of 
the confirmations.  Several years ago the EIDXA discussed increasing the 
dues in order to have more funds available for sponsoring DXpeditions.  At 
least one member did not favor that change because he feared the identity of 
the actual donor would be lost and that the special treatment he received by 
direct with a contribution would be lost along with it.

I do not know the answer but I believe Rich has been including our list with 
EIDXA donations.  It would be nice to know if that helps or not.

73,  Jim  W0SR

-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Heinrich
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 7:20 AM
To: James Meade
Cc: eidxa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] Early LoTW question

Jim,

This has been a "hot topic" with all the DX-pedition activity.

As I understand it, if you want an early upload of LoTW you would have to
make an individual donation.  As I think you can appreciate, it is hard to
get a club contribution and then parse out all the member calls.  Just
imagine even if our Secretary Treasurer took the total club donation and
divided it up into the appropriate "member increments" the level of work
and submission e-mails that would be required.  Now multiply that for the
DX-pedition QSL manager having to do the same thing!  Difficult at best.

There is an alternative - OQRS.  Here you can make the individual donation
- usually about $5.  And you get a card and LoTW (generally).  My personal
experience with OQRS is that the LoTW shows up well ahead of the mailed
card.

I think this would be a great question for our speaker at the meeting on
the 24th!

Rick


On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 7:37 PM, James Meade <jnmeade at southslope.net> wrote:

> If EIDXA contributes to a DXpedition which offers early LoTW uploads for
> donors, do all EIDXA members get early notice LoTW uploads, or is the 
> early
> upload feature an individual or one-by-one activity?
>
> Tnx,
>
> 73
> Jim NO0B
>
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