[Dx-qsl] contributions...

Fri Apr 18 22:33:40 EDT 2014

Although the SPIRIT of the of the ExPedition is for the expedition team to handle as much as possible, this isn't realistic. On a lesser trip to CY0AA, I personally took on thousands of dollars of debt personally. The same was for my fellow companions. As I recall, I retired this debt some 10 years after the trip. I don't place blame or accountability to anyone but me. My fellow travelers also took on debt. When someone thinks that their contribution goes no-where, they are wrong. 
We didn't fund a major expedition...not near what the MEGA trips cost. The thousands that we received though in the form of donations, allowed me and my fellow treksters to retire the debt earlier, but still years afterwards. I would hope that no one loses the perspective that contributions are useless and that LOTW will rescue all of us. I waited until over 10 years afterward to add to the LOTW logs for CY0AA. All of the paper QSL's and buro QSL's had been long ago answered, but just in case a straggler, we'd be covered.
Financial times are harder now...give what you can. But also recognize the real costs of traveling to these God-forsaken rocks/entities, and if you can...throw an extra buck in the pile. It IS appreciated always !!!
73
Ken
WA8JOC
CY0AA