[EIDXA] Early LoTW question

[Richard Heinrich]

We just bumped it to $20.  Not sure there was a proposal to increment it
again.

Rick

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Bob Lee via EIDXA <eidxa at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what was the amount of dues increase being proposed?
> Just trying to get a sense of scale.
>
>
> Bob Lee
> W0GXA
>
>
> "CW forever"
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Spencer <Jim at SpencerHills.com>
> To: Richard Heinrich <richard.heinrich at rockwellcollins.com>; James Meade <
> jnmeade at southslope.net>
> Cc: eidxa <eidxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 10:30 am
> Subject: Re: [EIDXA] Early LoTW question
>
>
> 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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