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"QSL CARDS ARE POSTED"

Mailing of QSL Cards

By Ken Holdom ZL4HU

Hi All

The Kermadec Dx Association wishes to announce that all QSL requests for our highly successfull DXpedition to the Chatham Islands, ZL7C ,in October 2002 which were received as of Wednesday 26th February will be answered and despatched through New Zealand Post on Friday 28 February 2003. Please note that this does NOT include cards received via QSL Services and the like. These will be mailed out at a later date when time permits.

Our mail-out on 28 Feb. will consist of some 5100 plus envelopes which contain in excess of 19,200 QSO's and they will be mailed taking advantage of New Zealand Post's International ECONOMY rate, so we would ask that you please be patient and allow between 3 and 5 weeks for delivery.

Our processing team have completed this task in just over one month from the time we received our cards from our major sponsors, Vertex Standard, (formerly Yaesu of Japan) whom we thank very much for their ongoing sponsorship. Our team have done a fantastic job in such a short period of time considering each member had work and travel commitments to work around.

To those of you who did not include sufficient postage OR a return Self addressed envelope with your requests these cards WILL go via the bureau.

To those who included other DXpedition cards with your ZL7C requests these will take a little longer to process and mailed out accordingly.

We would appreciate you all NOT posting messages to the various REFLECTORS etc on receipt of your cards. This only causes panic and high blood pressure levels amongst our community and prompts unnecessary e-mails to me.

I will begin processing incoming QSL information e-mails as of 1 May 2003 when by which time you should have received your ZL7C cards. At this date I will be in a position to check to see if your cards have actually arrived at my QTH.

We will also begin processing 2nd requests after this date. Please if possible, avoid sending second requests until after the 1 May 2003. This gives us more time to spend on genuine 1st requests.

As I have mentioned in my earlier postings, cards that have been sent to my OLD Wellington addresses may not reach me and those who sent them to other addresses from pre 1989 call books etc I suggest you update your records etc. Those who NOW reside at the old addresses do not always appreciate mail for previous property owners especially after some 3 years.

Please feel free to publish this e-mail in full in any media format you consider appropriate. The wider the coverage the less problems/complaints we will receive.

Finally, we thank you all for participating in our Dxpedition which as I mentioned earlier was a huge success and without your contacts this would not have been possible. Yes we did have some fun and I hope that you all enjoyed the contacts that you made with us, all be it they were so brief.

To those who supported us, a big thank you and we hope that you will continue to support DXpeditions in the future regardless of their size.

Kind regards and best wishes for the future and Good DXing. Our HOBBY is still very much alive and well.

Ken Holdom ZL4HU
Group Organiser / Team Leader / QSL Manager
Kermadec DX Association

Postal address

P O Box 7
Clyde
Central Otago
New Zealand