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

[Robert McGwier]

I have not received this mailing and I have been a life member for decades.

Bob



Dr. Robert W McGwier, Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Tech
ARDC Member of Board
N4HY: ARRL, TAPR, AMSAT, EARC
Sky: AAVSO, SkyHub, Auburn AS, Skyscrapers

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 1:00 PM Jeff WE4B via Ground-Station
<ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:

> 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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