[MiQP-Mail] MiQP "MACKINAC" Certificates

Hank Greeb n8xx at arrl.org
Fri Feb 15 17:24:19 EST 2008


I've FINALLY got the MiQP "MACKINAC" Certificates from the 2007 event 
ready to go into the mail.  With any luck I'll drap them in the mail 
tomorrow, certainly by Tuesday (Monday is a legal holiday, and the post 
office won't be operating.

This brings up a point - I volunteered for the task, figuring that we'd 
have 20 or at the outside maybe 50 certificates to send out.  I believe, 
at last count, we had 140+ certificates.  The cost to me was $200+ for 
printing, envelopes, postage.  I contracted to do this, so this is not a 
complaint.

But, this turned out to be a big job.  I got about 1/3 of the 
certificates mailed shortly after the results were available, put the 
rest aside, and things dragged on and on and on.  I apologize for the delay,

I suggest that the availability of a certificate generates interest.  
Many ops said they'd participate regardless, but we had folks from 
Europe, Canada, and a whole bunch of Untied States, outside of Michigan, 
who qualified. 

I believe we should have a certificate for the 2008 event.  I haven't 
researched what that certificate might commemorate. 

I do think we should either make the criteria more difficult, or we 
should charge a nominal fee to cover expenses.  Something like $2.00 per 
certificate would cover the cost, and, perhaps, make a small bit of 
money for the treasury, if we'd get a break on printing as happened to 
me at my local print shop.

Lettuce thimk about the possibilities for an award certificate for the 
upcoming MiQP.

73 de n8xx Hg




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