[R-390] Donations to List Owner

[Don Reaves]

If you value this list then consider making a donation to Al Waller, 
owner/operator of qth.net, who provides the resources for its very 
existence to us without charge.  Al spends about $30,000 a year of 
his own and donated money to keep these systems running and updated.
Any mailing list with qth.net in the domain is provided by Al gratis.
  
To summarize from one of Al's emails (after he just found out two
of his usual corporate sponsors were unable to make their usual 
large donations):

[.. we are $10K short for the year at the start, but it gets worse. 
I can't put any more money into this than I already do, to do so would not 
be fair to my family. The only place I see this being made up is from the 
users ... If every user gave us a dime we could operate for 18 months or 
so, If every user sent us $1.00 we could operate for the next 20 years. 
What actually happens is about 600 people donate an average of $10 each 
and we never hear from the rest. I'm not ungrateful for the donations 
don't get me wrong but it is the same users year after year and that will
cease too, I'm afraid. With no help we will be in deep dodo by Fall. ]

 
I just sent in my donation by paypal.  I'll never miss the $25 but would 
miss these lists including this one and Drake, Collins, and Milsurplus.
To date, Al has received 262 donations totalling $3400.  There are 400,000 
users of qth.net! There are 561 members in this R-390 list.  

Electronic donations accepted by

Credit Card https://proxy.qsl.net/donation
PayPal      http://www.paypal.com   (account k3tkj@qsl.net)
BidPay      http://www.bidpay.com  (account k3tkj@qsl.net)

Donations by mail:

        QSL.NET, Inc
        34087 Old Hickory Road
        Laurel, Delaware 19956

 QSL.NET by phone? Fax?
 302-875-7979 voice
 302-875-1358 fax


Thanks.


Don Reaves W5OR
R-390 list manager
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