RE: [officers] RE: [amsat-bb] Membership DIRECTED survey

["Jim Jarvis" <jimjarvis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel...

I had forgotten about Hussein.  Perhaps we need to communicate
with Queen Noor.  More than a few members of the royal family
are amateurs.

N2EA
jimjarvis@ieee.org

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From: owner-Officers@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-Officers@AMSAT.Org]On
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Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:11 AM
To: 'Luc Leblanc (VE2DWE)'; amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Cc: 'Gunther Meisse'; Advisors@AMSAT.Org; bod@AMSAT.Org;
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Subject: [officers] RE: [amsat-bb] Membership DIRECTED survey


Gee, unless I'm badly mistaken, after the splash-down of P3A, King Hussein
of Jordan made a considerable donation to AMSAT for future satellite
development.  As far as I know, he was not a satellite operator or member.
Point is, money and people are what makes our organization happen; thus,
money to an organization is kinda like oxygen to the human body, you cannot
have one without the other.

Now, I've seen fights here on the AMSAT-BB (arguments are kinda like
debates, each side gets an equal share of time) and it is getting quite
juvenile.  I have discovered two things in my measly 35 years here in this
world and they seem to work for me.  (1) *you* control how *you* react to a
situation and (2) you *cannot* control how someone else responds to the same
situation.  I am seeing complaints about what the BOD is deciding and then,
when they try to get the *membership* to respond, I see complaints about how
they do it.  I suggest all these armchair quarterbacks (use your favorite
analogy) put up or shut up!  Make a *constructive* statement rather than an
accusing one.  Suggest how you might do something, don't tell someone else
they're doing it wrong!

BTW, I'm *not* active on the satellites at this time (I moved the latter
half of last year and don't have coax run into my shack - although I do have
my antennas in the air), but I *am* a dues-paying member and I *did* receive
a survey and sent it back.  Hope you don't mind, but I didn't see on the
survey where I needed anyone's approval!

73,

Joel B. Black
w4jbb@charter.net
http://webpages.charter.net/w4jbb

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