[CQ-Contest] WPX and LOTW

[Oliver Dröse]

Tim,

ever heard of "the bureau"? Will cost nothing (at least internationally for 
US operators) except membership in your local society (ARRL for US). Just to 
add still another point of view. ;-)

73, Olli - DH8BQA



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timothy Coker" <n6win73 at gmail.com>
To: "Bill Parry" <bparry at rgv.rr.com>
Cc: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 12:26 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WPX and LOTW


> Or it could cost $1582.20 in postage, assuming first class US mail SASE
> sent to each of those prefixes for a hard card. Plus figure in 1758 QSL
> cards, envelopes, labels, pens, hand cramps, paper cut hands, bloated
> tongue, and such... then there is still the awards checking portion of
> sending the cards somewhere or taking them to someone.
>
> Just another way of looking at it...  :)
>
> I am also probably not going to confirm all my prefixes, but for those who
> want that paper the ARRL and CQ Magazine has given them a great cost
> savings method of doing so.
>
> 73,
>
> Tim / N6WIN.
>
> www.n6win.com
>
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Bill Parry <bparry at rgv.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I would check out the WPX provision on LOTW this morning. I 
>> have
>> a
>> bunch of prefixes from all the contests over the years and I thought it
>> might be cool to have the certificate. I went through the process and it
>> said that I have 1758 prefixes. Seems reasonable. The final page shows 
>> that
>> 1758 confirmations will cost $210.96 at $.12 per confirmation. That seems
>> pretty expensive so I guess that I'll have to just do without that one!
>>
>> Bill W5VX
>>
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