[Cwo] 2014 CW Open Award Structure

[Don Greenbaum]

I agree with John, what better way to use our money.

Don

At 05:14 PM 2/6/2014, John Miller wrote:
>I can't think of any better way to spend some of our dollars.
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>Logo attached.
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>John, K6MM
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>On Feb 6, 2014, at 1:13 PM, k6rb at baymoon.com wrote:
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> > There would be, worst case, 12 trophies and 27 plaques. Trophy cost is
> > approximately $80; plaques are $30.
> >
> > So, $960 for trophies and $810 for plaques = $1770. Figure $2,000 with
> > shipping costs. ICOM is now spending about $800 per year, so for an extra
> > $200, they would have worldwide coverage. We would budget $1,000 for CWO
> > awards, and $500 for promotion (e.g. advertisements). I would chat with
> > Ray Novak (ICOM) and see if they would pay for even more than half the
> > cost - I think it's high likelihood. He and I talked about it in
> > Mozambique a bit.
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> > On another subject, we are likely to be spending $800 on CWT participation
> > medallions plus shipping ($8 x 100); and $100 on QTX achievement award
> > medallions. So, all told, we may have to plan for about $2000 per year for
> > awards plus shipping.
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> > With QTX and CWT it's hard to pin it down more precisely because we do not
> > know how many will qualify, each year. In 2013, we had 70 CWT qualifiers,
> > for example.
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> > The other award category is CW Academy Advisor awards. These are given
> > once to an advisor who has taught at least 6 semesters (two years) and to
> > an advisor who has taught at least 12 semesters (four years). These will
> > also be up there in the $70 to $80 range...but we would be averaging,
> > maybe, four per year.
> >
> > Rob K6RB
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> >> How much we expecting this to cost, for budgeting purposes?   On 02/06/14,
> >> k6rb at baymoon.com wrote: Here are my thoughts on the subject. CW Open was
> >> meant to be primarily a
> >> regional contest so that people in the three ITU regions were competing
> >> intra-regionally. We expected a lot of JAs would play in the two sessions
> >> that favored their low and high bands; and the same would happen for EU
> >> and NA. Essentiaﾰ�
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>73,
>John, K6MM
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