[Ground-station] AMSAT "Don't Rock the Boat" rule

[Jeff WE4B]

My bad... they used presorted mail but the end result is the same. There are no postmarks on envelopes and thus the information mailed out is incorrect. 

Jeff WE4B

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:37 PM, Jeff WE4B <jeff at we4bravo.com> wrote:
> 
> The letter says to mail opposition back to AMSAT within X days of the postmark on the AMSAT letter. Because AMSAT used the non-profit postage license, there are no postmarks. This should render all of this as a moot point. Right?
> 
> Jeff WE4B
> 
>>> On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Peter Laws N5UWY via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>>> 
>> What you seem to be summarizing here, Bruce, is an attempt by AMSAT-NA
>> to codify how they have been operating since at least 2018.  I was a
>> member of an amateur radio satellite related group on a popular social
>> networking site at the same time that I was a rotating editor of the
>> ANS weekly bulletin.  I was informed by AMSAT-NA that unless I removed
>> myself from that amateur radio satellite related group on a popular
>> social networking site and joined a different amateur radio satellite
>> related group (on the same popular social networking site), I would
>> have my editorship terminated (or was it my membership? I'd have to
>> mine old mail).
>> 
>> I asked several times for clarification of their control of my private
>> dealings and none was ever forthcoming.  I ceased to be a rotating
>> editor of the ANS weekly bulletin shortly thereafter since I declined
>> to remove myself from that group.
>> 
>> I renewed my membership one more time after that because some people
>> were running for the AMSAT-NA board that thought, as I did, that this
>> was a completely ridiculous way to run a hobby organization.  Some of
>> that slate won, but the writing on the wall was so clear, that I have
>> never had any more interaction with AMSAT-NA.  Worse, I've completely
>> stopped listening to or operating via anyone's amateur radio
>> satellites since.
>> 
>> For the record, I make a point of referring to AMSAT-NA because I want
>> to make it clear that there is, to my knowledge, only one "AMSAT"
>> organization run by petty buffoons and that's AMSAT-NA.  I don't want
>> to, in any way, besmirch the reputations of any of the other
>> AMSAT-branded organizations like AMSAT-DL or AMSAT-UK, to name two,
>> who do such important work for the amateur radio satellite community.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!
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