Bill. I think I owe you the favor of an apology, if you sent me something off line and I didnt reply to it. Sorry.
I will check back and make sure that 1) it didnt by accident go into junk mail and 2) I just didnt miss it in the regular folders. We had quite a crush of email over the last few weeks...my wife and I had shotgunned out a "we are pregnant" email...and I might have just missed it. I'll look for it tonight... Robert WB5MZO > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:38:32 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Volunteered > > > > Rocky Jones wrote: > > Bob > > > > What has been remarkable about this thread, is that it has shown how > > dysfunctional AMSAT NA is. > > > > Forget satelllite > It's satellite - by the way! > construction etc...people point out problems with the web site and next > thing you have is someone explaining who can and cannot comment on the > state of the organization (to paraphrase "we dont need weak volunteers > who are discouraged by no real method of being able to volunteer one > has to earn the right to be critical...") > > > > Forget the ability to answer serious questions like (and I know its > > annoying) As a team memb"how was the suitsat 2 program allowed to not meet > > the ability to use the "suits". > > As a SuitSat team member, I gave you a brief answer offline and offered > to get more detail if you so desired. You didn't respond. It's obvious > to me that you really don't want an answer, You just want to be a > boring, broken record. > > So I'll repeat the simple answer, here, why we missed the suit launch. > Listen up. > > The SuitSat team is made up entirely of volunteers who have real jobs, > families, and other responsibilities. Hey, we're just pursuing our > Amateur radio HOBBY - not a professional job. Some of you folks talk > like we're a Loral or Lockheed. Did you critics forget that Amateur > radio satellites are a hobby - not a business? > > Well, by golly, along the way technical challenges delayed progress. > Jobs and families got in the way. Son of a gun - we missed schedules. > I'm not offering excuses, just offering the reality of having folks on > the team that aren't getting paid for their fantastic efforts. > > Sure, it's not nice to have technical issues show up or to miss > schedules but in the scheme of things, what have we lost - except maybe > creditability in YOUR eyes. We now have a new satellite structure more > suited for what we are trying to do technically - called ARRISat. > > The way you've been carrying on, I am so very glad we don't have you > volunteering - even to stuff envelopes. You'd probably say that we were > doing that wrong too. Personally, I thought that refunding your AMSAT > life membership would make me feel better, but on further reflection, > AMSAT should just keep your money since it is helping fund efforts to > serve it's members who appreciate what volunteers are trying to do for > them and their hobby. > > And if you think any of your comments have caused the ARRISat team to > miss a beat on the way to our 2010 launch, then think again. This team > has tackled and solved technical challenges more significant for the > future of AMSAT and its members, than ANY of the issues you raise. > > Regards...Bill - N6GHz > > > > > And from what I can tell no one has a clue why Suitsat 1 failed (I know it > > was a glorious success by just deploying) much less how to avoid a repeat > > of that with a much more complicated followon which is now functionally a > > new satellite. > > > > And of course the whole concept of board meetings which really are not is > > entertaining. > > > > The answers are "you cannot criticize "us" we are working 16 to 18 hour > > days doing things that no one else will do"... > > > > and then one wonders why donations are at an all time low. > > > > Robert WB5MZO Amsat NA life member > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. > > http://windowslive.com/Campaign/SocialNetworking?ocid=PID23285::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_SB_online:082009 > > _______________________________________________ > > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > > _________________________________________________________________ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
