[VHFcontesting] QSL cards for K4N in EL84....

[Marshall-K5QE]

Hello everyone....I have just started with the design of the QSL cards 
for the K4N DXpedition to EL84.  It is going to take me at least a week 
more to get the designs finalized and off to the printer.  SO, be 
patient, I am working on it.

I had a long chat with Joey-W5TFW, our QSL Manager.  He is quite adamant 
that there will be NO LOTW, now or in the future.  He did do LOTW for 
the first EL58 DXpedition and maybe one of the small ones after that.  
He told me that it was a nightmare and he was NEVER going to do that 
again.  LOTW seems pretty stupid.  It loaded all the logs that he sent 
into the same grid, even though the log files clearly showed another 
grid.  It took the help of an LOTW expert to work all that out.  LOTW 
also put all of the entries under Joey's personal account....so his QSLs 
and the QSLs for K5N were all grouped under him.  This is just plain silly.

This decision was Joey's, not mine, although I agree with it.  I have 
said before that I would not interfere with what Joey does. He is the 
QSL manager, so he is the one that has to live with it.

HENCE, if you want a QSL card from EL84, just send Joey one of yours 
with an SASE.  NO SASE means NO QSL.  Joey has already said that he has 
received several cards with no envelope at all, never mind an SASE.  
Joey does not have the time nor the inclination to address 1400 
envelopes by hand....and he should not have to.  In addition, Joey is 
not going to pay for your postage.

ALSO, please send your QSL card requests to Joey, not to me.  I don't 
have any cards to send out....Joey will have the blank cards when I get 
them to the printer.  I have already received a couple of K4N QSO 
requests that were sent here to me.

I hope that we did work you from EL84....we certainly did work a lot of 
folks this time.  Maybe we were able to move EL84 down the Most Wanted 
list a few pegs....

73 Marshall K5QE