[VHFcontesting] LoTW Fee Schedule just released !!!

[Lee Scott - AA1YN]

At 05:44 PM 9/29/2003 -0400, R Johnson wrote:
>At 4:59 PM the ARRL LoTW Fees were placed on the LoTW 
>https://www.arrl.org/lotw/fees .
>These Fees are a bit more than what I had expected when you consider that 
>you still
>have to pay for the ARRL Award.
>
>With eQSL it cost only $5.01( $5 for the AG Certificate and $0.01 for a 
>donation) to
>register your logs and ALL of the Awards are free.
>
>Not that I'm equating an EQSL Award with an ARRL Award, but this price 
>difference
>isn't going to help LoTW a bit.
>
>73
>Bob, K1VU

Bob - and others,

I too was a little shocked at the prices.  I then got to thinking about 
some of their reasoning as to the prices for the credits.

First it was and still is quite an undertaking for the software.  I do 
software development as a consultant and it is probably costing the League 
about $500,000 if not more.

Then when you consider what it costs to mail a QSL card with an SASE. - 
$0.74 each, then the $0.25 each is not too bad. It will take quite a few 
confirmed QSLs to pay for the software.

When you consider I'm going to send out 8 QSL cards to one person with an 
SASE, it is only $0.0925 each.  I would have thought that the League would 
have priced the confirmations at $0.10 each for members and maybe $0.20 for 
non-members (single quantity) - but then, I'm not a League decision maker.

I guess time will tell as to whether the price is accepted by the community 
or not.


Lee Scott - AA1YN
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