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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/BDENA5MDRMI23K4O2SK2Q435ZZYMZPD5/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "BDENA5MDRMI23K4O2SK2Q435ZZYMZPD5", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/BDENA5MDRMI23K4O2SK2Q435ZZYMZPD5/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "bill (a) hsmicrowave.com", "mailman_id": "d7ecbf0c1df148f289f27dd7a8c37974", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/d7ecbf0c1df148f289f27dd7a8c37974/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Bill Ress", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Bill Ress - N6GHz - Board Candidate - Operating Survey", "date": "2008-07-22T17:20:28Z", "parent": null, "children": [], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "Hi John,\n\nSorry John, I typed John when I meant James.\n\nThanks for your comments too!\n\nRegards...Bill - N6GHz\n\nJohn Price wrote:\n> What statements about your employment are you referring to Bill. I was\n> not responding to you but\n> to James and his comments concerning my post. Please explain. 73's << John N4QWF\n>\n> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Bill Ress <[email protected]> wrote:\n> \n>> Hello John,\n>>\n>> Thanks for taking the time to express your views.\n>>\n>> Regarding your comments about my employment and as stated in the ballot\n>> statement, I run a RF.microwave components company. While some of the\n>> products can be used in satellite applications, I seriously doubt that could\n>> constitute any conflict of interest by my running for the board.\n>>\n>> Quite the contrary, I think AMSAT could benefit from having more folks like\n>> me with technology industry experience helping guide AMSAT's future. After\n>> all, a satellite is one big hunk of state of the art technology.\n>>\n>> Regards...Bill - N6GHz\n>> ,\n>> John Price wrote:\n>> \n>>> James, I wont be investing in 3 gig equipment. If I had plenty of\n>>> money and lots of expertise all things would be possible. In the real\n>>> world it just don't work that way. You are trying to sell Amateur\n>>> Satellite service to the masses by offering them a chance to work\n>>> something that they can't use or afford. The time and expense that is\n>>> put into developing transponders that you can't buy a radio to work is\n>>> not practical. Do you know that Yaesu has withdrawn from the satellite\n>>> market? Kenwood offers the 1.2 gig module for there 2000 at a cost of\n>>> an additional $500.00 making that radio over $2000.00. That is it as\n>>> far as I know for off the shelf rigs for 1.2 gig. Downeast has a\n>>> upconverter for about the same cost as the Kenwood module. Now in the\n>>> real world that is a bunch to invest to add one band to your station.\n>>>\n>>> Your comment concerning appliance operators sure wont endear many new\n>>> hams to Amsat. I have no formal training in electronics. I spent 25\n>>> years as a Deputy Sheriff and knew nothing\n>>> of ham radio or electronics when I got my ticket. Over the past 20\n>>> years I have learned a little\n>>> thanks to a bunch of wonderful skilled hams. Together with one of my\n>>> friends a RF engineer who retired from GE we built a 1.2 gig station\n>>> for field day a year ago out of a old Master III and a\n>>> signal generator. Got the contact and was mighty proud. I have\n>>> listened on L/u a few times since and have worked three contacts. If\n>>> the 3 gig flys I might decide to do the same thing. My point\n>>> is how many of those \"appliance operators\" are going to be able to do\n>>> the same. We are going to have another satellite with a bunch of\n>>> electronics that might get used by 10 people.\n>>>\n>>> My since of adventure is tempered by my practicallity I guess.\n>>>\n>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:45 PM, James French <[email protected]>\n>>> wrote:\n>>>\n>>> \n>>>> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 19:00 -0400, John Price wrote:\n>>>>\n>>>> \n>>>>> I for one am very opposed to the 3 and 10 gig transponder. I have seen\n>>>>> little or no interest in the 1.2 uplink. Folks are not willing to\n>>>>> spend $500.00 to work a transponder that is mostly quite and\n>>>>> could go away over night like 2.4 did with AO-40. Did anyone listen to\n>>>>> the L/u AO-51 on Field Day.\n>>>>> While V/u was jammed I worked the first station I heard on L/u and\n>>>>> there were maybe 5 others on that pass. I don't maintain 1.2 gig\n>>>>> equipment here. It is not worth the investment.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> \n>>>> And what would be the trigger for you to invest in the equipment? There\n>>>> is NO GAURUNTEES that any of these new birds will get to orbit in one\n>>>> peice. Look at AO-40. She was a GREAT birds at the beginning, then\n>>>> something happened and all we had were a couple of uplinks with one\n>>>> downlink.\n>>>>\n>>>> Where is your sense of adventure with experimenting with something new\n>>>> and untested? How are you helping advance the Art of Amateur Radio and\n>>>> Satellites if we are STUCK back in the stone ages with 2m and 70cm and\n>>>> FM birds?\n>>>>\n>>>> I for one would and have invested in the higher bands as I am also using\n>>>> that equipment for Rovering and some contesting which I have found that\n>>>> I really like. I also use this equipment to talk around my area/state.\n>>>> This equipment with a little modification is can also be used for when\n>>>> we have a HEO or GEO satellite in orbit.\n>>>>\n>>>> I WANT more digital store-and-forward birds along with more Sideband\n>>>> voice birds on bands OTHER than 2mand 70cm. Right now there is no\n>>>> CHALLENGE in the current crop of satellites we have when all I can do\n>>>> MOST of the time is get on and have enough time to get a GRID SQUARE\n>>>> and a NAME/CALLSIGN of the person I am talking to. I want to be able\n>>>> to hold a net where I can talk to a NUMBER of people and find out more\n>>>> about everyone or ask for help and get it. I want to be able to send\n>>>> video via these new birds of my latest project or of the 'kids' as they\n>>>> operate. I want to be able to demonstrate what Amatuer radio is and can\n>>>> do that the internet can't. I want to be able to TINKER on these new\n>>>> birds with a new mode that I have either developed or have an interest\n>>>> in. I want to be able to use that new microwave transverter for things\n>>>> other than to talk to or see (video) locals.\n>>>>\n>>>> Where is EVERYONES sense of experimentation or did we as amateur radio\n>>>> operators/licenses leave that at the door when we got licensed or are we\n>>>> just content with what has been done and happy to sit on our laurels\n>>>> and let the world leave us behind as a group that WILL die out in about\n>>>> twenty/thirty years as we don't have any NEW blood to carry on with the\n>>>> experimentation, thinking, and tinkering? Are we going to let the\n>>>> INTERNET be the thing to determine how and where we go as a group?\n>>>> Everyone on here gripes about how the internet is taking away everything\n>>>> what about how we are making things interesting to entice these people\n>>>> in the hobby and into Satellites? Where is the challenge anymore? I\n>>>> want to be able to EXPERIMENT on thse new crop of birds, not just sit\n>>>> around on 2m and 70cm and make a couple quick qso's to exchange grid\n>>>> squares!!!\n>>>>\n>>>> Bill, I looked at your webpage and see that you MIGHT have a reason to\n>>>> have new birds up and running other than just as a member that wants to\n>>>> help out AMSAT through these trying times. I see no problem with that at\n>>>> all as AMSAT has had others like you on the BoD before and they have\n>>>> done a great job of not compromising their integrity as a Director. I\n>>>> just don't see anything saying if you are a owner or an employee of this\n>>>> company. Could you enlighten me and the others before I make a decision\n>>>> on which three candidates are the best?\n>>>>\n>>>> James W8ISS - a voting member that has issues with the current crop of\n>>>> APPLIANCE OPERATORS on the amateur bands!!!\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>> _______________________________________________\n>>>> Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author.\n>>>> Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite\n>>>> program!\n>>>> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>> \n>>>\n>>>\n>>> \n>\n>\n>\n> \n", "attachments": [] }