Hi Michael,
I think you are being pessimistic..I have done quite a few more orbits
around the sun than you but I expect that I will see another AMSAT supported
HEO/GTO (or similar) spacecraft launched in my lifetime. Probably more than
one! I have no particular inside knowledge just an understanding that almost
everything moves along in cycles rather than in linear progressions
73
Graham
G3VZV
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: so long
I said this a couple of weeks back but since reading all the responses
in this thread, I think I'll say it again. I'm almost fifty one years
old. I highly doubt that I will ever see an HEO bird launched in my
remaining lifetime. The economic realities of this day and time make the
possibility of a launch extremely remote and I don't see that changing
in the near future. I can't understand why AMSAT continues to string
people along with promises of "maybe someday if you donate". Why can't
they just be upfront about it and tell people, " Hey it aint going to
happen". There is absolutely nothing wrong with the new direction AMSAT
has taken in pursuing cubesat technology and launches, I applaud them
for it but the continued lip service to the " we want an HEO crowd"
gets old. I for one am not that gullible. Quit telling people what they
want to hear and tell them the truth.
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 9/17/2013 7:02 PM, i8cvs wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Becker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:58 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] so long
I have decided to leave the list till something changes with this FM
only satellite attitude only changes. That was the reason for me as
well as other joining AMSAT in the first place.
Please inform me if anything such as a replacement for AO 40
happens.
John
Hi John,W0JAB
I was AMSAT member numbar 798 since OSCAR-6 but I decided
to live my membership after AO40 died because AMSAT changed
his policy with only FM satellites.
I remember that OSCAR-10,OSCAR13 and AO40 where called
"the satellites for all" and I invested a lot of money for equipments
and antennas dedicated for HEO satellites for nothing in the near
future.
In my opinion the satellite operation is not only an activity to collect
grids but it is mostly experimentation in the VHF/UHF/SHF and
particularly into microwave as it was with AO40 Mode-S/K and
it was very nice until lasted.
As soon AMSAT-NA will work or cooperate with AMSAT-DL
to built a new HEO satellite I will call Martha and I will pay all
my old duties to cover my previous not covered years of
membership.
By the way I am not against AMSAT-NA because I understand
the ITAR and during the last 10 years I have cooperate to write
many technical articles for the AMSAT Journal without any
money reward.
If Martha says that the actual AMSAT members are in the order
of 3,000. and if Les Rayburn, N1LF claim to be member of
AMSAT #38965 it means that in the last 10 years many
members abandoned AMSAT because of no future with no
HEO satellites and only the FM LEO cubesat for no two
ways communications between continents was not a
satisfactory task.
Many years ago early in 1972 I joined AMSAT because they
promised us to communicate worlwide much better than using
the HF but things changed and our antennas are becaming
rusty over the roof for very small or for nothing........Sorry !
73" de i8CVS Domenico
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