<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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?<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Jeff WE4B</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:20 PM, Peter Laws N5UWY via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>What you seem to be summarizing here, Bruce, is an attempt by AMSAT-NA</span><br><span>to codify how they have been operating since at least 2018. I was a</span><br><span>member of an amateur radio satellite related group on a popular social</span><br><span>networking site at the same time that I was a rotating editor of the</span><br><span>ANS weekly bulletin. I was informed by AMSAT-NA that unless I removed</span><br><span>myself from that amateur radio satellite related group on a popular</span><br><span>social networking site and joined a different amateur radio satellite</span><br><span>related group (on the same popular social networking site), I would</span><br><span>have my editorship terminated (or was it my membership? I'd have to</span><br><span>mine old mail).</span><br><span></span><br><span>I asked several times for clarification of their control of my private</span><br><span>dealings and none was ever forthcoming. I ceased to be a rotating</span><br><span>editor of the ANS weekly bulletin shortly thereafter since I declined</span><br><span>to remove myself from that group.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I renewed my membership one more time after that because some people</span><br><span>were running for the AMSAT-NA board that thought, as I did, that this</span><br><span>was a completely ridiculous way to run a hobby organization. Some of</span><br><span>that slate won, but the writing on the wall was so clear, that I have</span><br><span>never had any more interaction with AMSAT-NA. Worse, I've completely</span><br><span>stopped listening to or operating via anyone's amateur radio</span><br><span>satellites since.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For the record, I make a point of referring to AMSAT-NA because I want</span><br><span>to make it clear that there is, to my knowledge, only one "AMSAT"</span><br><span>organization run by petty buffoons and that's AMSAT-NA. I don't want</span><br><span>to, in any way, besmirch the reputations of any of the other</span><br><span>AMSAT-branded organizations like AMSAT-DL or AMSAT-UK, to name two,</span><br><span>who do such important work for the amateur radio satellite community.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Peter</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Peter Laws | N5UWY | plaws plaws net | Travel by Train!</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>