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        "address": "Mat_62 (a) charter.net",
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    "sender_name": "Michael",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Just expanding on my previous thoughts about AMSAT\tperception....",
    "date": "2019-08-01T01:56:37Z",
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    "content": "  Expanding on my previous thoughts pasted at bottom...\n\nIt seems to me that the 'easy\" thing has run it's course. Again, just \none mans opinion but I think if you had some sort of setup outside a \nhamfest with a card table and a folding chair, a sat rig and an Arduino \nbased rotator controller running off a laptop or I-pad and antennas on a \n\"WRAPS\" ( I think?) type tripod tracking both Azimuth and Elevation, \nyou'd attract the more technically savvy hams. Probably more youth too. \nI know in my model railroading hobby that the fact we can now run trains \nwith a smart phone is a big draw. Back in the day, on the not so great \npasses, I would sometimes fire up the shack computer and my BASIC STAMP \nbased Sabretrack homebrew rotor controller and walk outside and watch my \nold surplus OR-360 TV rotators moving my homebrew antennas to track the \nsat across the sky. To me there was a certain \"coolness factor\" in that \nwhich can't be matched by the guy holding the antenna in his hand and \nwaving it about. In fact, my whole idea in buying the beat up telescope \ntripod was to sit outside at a table with a couple of HT's and my old \nnotebook computer driving  the thing with a couple of light weight \nantennas on board. Yes, I know that I don't necessarily need to track \nelevation with an LEO but watching the antennas track both is awesome to \nme. I think we miss the boat sometimes by constantly harping on and \ntouting the \"easy\" aspect of it. Sometimes complex and high tech is more \nattractive. Digital modes, SDR and computers have made HF radio hi tech \nand cool again, at least for me, yet the sat hobby seems to be bending \nover backwards to over simplify and make things BORRRING! Even model \nrailroads are computer controlled these days! It doesn't have to be \nsuper expensive either. An Arduino and some DC motors and gears can be \nhad for less than the cost of a meal for four at Mickey D's. All my \nOR-360's were was Mabuchi style hobby motors hooked to a gear train. You \ncontrolled direction by switching polarity of 12VDC sent up the line and \nthey had position pot feedback. EasyComm format for AZ/EL. But hey, what \ndo I know, I've only been in this hobby forty one years. Just my opinion \nanyway. That and five bucks will get you a \"Venti\" designer coffee at \nStarbucks.\n\n73,\n\nMichael, W4HIJ\n\nJust from the outside looking in...\n\nAMSAT APPEARS only to be interested in hoisting flying repeaters and\nPACSAT/APRS and showing the average ham how \"easy\" it is to work sats\nwith a handheld and a simple antenna. I guess that's all well and good\nbut I didn't get in the sat end of the hobby for \"easy\".  I wanted a new\nchallenge. I was too late for A0-40 because of lack of funds for a\nstation but I did have fun for awhile chasing AO-51, FO-29, AO-7 etc.\nwith a TS-2000X and a homebrew rotator and antenna system.\nUnfortunately, life got in the way and I needed family funds so the\nKenwood hit Ebay and I'm inactive on the birds now. I sometimes consider\nbuying a couple of Baofengs (you should ALWAYS operate full duplex but\nthat's another thread) and getting back in on the cheap, I even recently\nbought a beat up old telescope with a computer tracking tripod system I\nspotted at Goodwill, but honestly, the challenge isn't there to give me\nmotivation.\n\nBefore everyone flames me, as I said, this is from the outside looking\nin and just one man's opinion. I really wish AMSAT would do something,\nanything, to change my perception. Seems to me I saw something about a\nYL running for the board who's interested in open sourcing stuff.  Her\ncandidate statement was IMHO, a much needed breath of fresh air but I'm\nno longer a member and don't keep up so no idea if she got elected. If\nAMSAT wants my membership and donation dollars back, they need to change\nperception and I suspect there are many out here in the community who\nfeel the way I do.\n\n",
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