RE: [amsat-bb] The University <-> AMSAT relation

["Reicher, James" <JReicher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

With all due respect, Roger, but AMSAT IS its members.  You say that
AMSAT doesn't reply, only individual members.  Well excuse me, but that
sounds like AMSAT to me!  And from experience with other organizations
to which I belong, no where is there a requirement that Board members
are required to listen to a bunch of whiny, self-serving egotistical
sycophants who can't see the forest for the trees.

73 de N8AU, Jim in Raymore, MO


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From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org] On
Behalf Of RogerKola 
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 8:24 AM
To: 4x1kx 
Cc: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] The University <-> AMSAT relation

In a message dated 03/28/04 4:22:22 AM Eastern Standard Time,
4x1kx@iarc.org 
writes:

> it's just that it is about
>  time that we accept that neither group is really aligned with AMSAT's

goals.
>  further more, the spacecraft building universities are actually more
likely
>  to do the kind of research we hams were chartered to do than we are
>  currently doing - but we beat them into submission. The focus of
national
>  AMSAT groups in the past years was/is/will be to provide a service
for well
>  established modes - not communications research

And this is why many of US, AMSAT Members, are begging AMSAT to develop
a 
policy, and provide a liaison with a "moldable" package which will be
presentable 
to these groups....

Here you have an entity, asking about a payload package, and AMSAT
itself 
doesn't reply, only individual members provide their thoughts with their
own 
individual opinions and biases.

We have been told many times that the "Board doesn't have time to
monitor 
this forum," however, these are the opportunities that are missed
because the 
AMSAT organization is not built to interact with individual membership
thoughts 
and needs....

Roger
WA1KAT    
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