Bill,
I agree in principle that a quantity discount would be nice to have.
Especially if you're submitting 1000 cards at $.12 each... Namely $120
However, let's keep things in perspective. If you have to request the
physical 1000 cards from the domestic and DX stations, how much will it cost
you to obtain them?
Let's say 400 of those cards are from US stations or US managers. So that's
400 letters sent at about $.49 each for first class postage... That's $196
right there. Plus cost of cards and envelopes. And if you have an SASE in
with each, that's $392 just for postage. Easily can be another $100 for
envelopes and cards. So you're looking at about $500. For the domestic 400
cards, we haven't even gotten into the other 600 DX cards.
Suddenly, that $120 doesn't look too bad, does it?
73, ron w3wn
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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Bill Parry
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 9:37 AM
To: lu5dx@lucg.com.ar; cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Encouraging Casual Participation in Contests
I am a big supporter of LOTW and have used it extensively for award
submission. The WPX award is not one of them. I would like to use it for
the WPX but the cost is not acceptable. If I were to apply 1000 Prefixes at
$.12 per LOTW QSL, the cost is just too much. Using LOTW for some awards
just doesn't work financially, nor is sending 1,000 QSLs in for checking.
There needs to be a different method of applying for these awards that
require a lot of QSLs such as WPX.
Bill W5VX
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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Martin LU5DX
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:43 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Encouraging Casual Participation in Contests
Absolutely great idea.
TBH, LoTW should become the standard solution for issuing credits for other
awards. National and local Clubs, Groups, could take advantage of it.
We've been talking about this type of solution with LU1FAM and LU5FF.
The ARRL could charge a small fee to those institutions using their LoTW
service to validate the credits.
Win-Win solution!
73,
Martin LU5DX
El 26/04/2017 a las 11:23 a.m., Pete Smith N4ZR escribió:
> We all agree, I think, that casual participants are a critical part of
> the total workable population in contests. I spent the first 40 years
> of my contesting career working contests as a quick and relatively
> easy source of award credits, and I suspect a large majority of the
> stations in any contest are doing some variation on this.
>
> There is a reasonably simple and straight-forward way to encourage
> more of this, potentially yielding more people for us to work. We
> need interconnection between CQ and ARRL contest databases, so that
> any contact that is in both stations' log in a given contest can be
> claimed for ARRL and CQ award credit without going through the QSL
> card process.
>
> I'm not underestimating the programming effort involved, I hope, but
> surely some combination of volunteer and professional staff
> involvement can get it done. It could start small - perhaps a pilot
> involving the CQWW open log database and DXCC. Imagine the value added
> to LOTW if it were the hub for this process, and the potential
> increase in DXCC fees. Surely, this is a win-win proposition.
>
>
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