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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/EKHKPYV5YMPAR6GRO5QRISZRSXWFJIXY/?format=api",
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        "address": "rwmcgwier (a) comcast.net",
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    "sender_name": "Robert McGwier",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: S band downlink on P3E",
    "date": "2006-09-09T16:08:24Z",
    "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/WHRLEVVRHXWVL5QFMQ3RNACZEWAIJN47/?format=api",
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    "content": "Luc:\n\nThere is no blackmail involved.  I am capable of doing many different \nthings.  YOU elect the board of directors and they will choose the \ndirection of the organization given your input and their own personal \nbiases.  <I> choose whether or not their goals and directions interest \nme enough to participate.  If they choose a direction I absolutely \nbelieve to be bad for amateur radio and the organization,  why would I \ntake my valuable volunteer time to support it?  It is a simple statement \nof facts.  I am uninterested in doing what I think is wrong.  I support \nP3E.  I think it is the right thing for now.  I do not support a \nduplicate of P3E because I do not want to attempt to hit the magic \ninclination with a 2000 m/s set of burns and I want to be able to \nsupport transponder operations on all major packages 24 hours a day,  7 \ndays a week.   If we do not do this,  we are not answering the AMSAT \nvision statement which says that is what we will do.   I am attempting \nto lead the engineering VOLUNTEERS to volunteer to meet that goal.  If \nthe organization does not wish to support that,  my leadership is \nineffective,  and while I can help the organization,  my time and \ntalents are in demand elsewhere and they will be better served and will \nhave a greater impact on amateur radio.  I do not wish to duplicate that \nwhich was designed in 1980 for a complete different era.  The phase 3 \nprogram is an engineering marvel.  It is essentially one man's absolute \ngenius (Karl)  incarnated and captured to varying degrees by the rest of \nus as the supporting cast.  But I do not believe it is appropriate for \n2010-2020 given the launch environment,  the RF environment, and the \nlegal environment.  The frame is too small to support the antennas \nrequired to use multiple satellites even to support 7/24 operations.   \nWe need a larger frame to support the phased arrays to meet the 70% \navailability and on and on and on. \n\nI am not emotional about these engineering decisions.  I get emotional \nwhen people do not use the minds they have been given and allow people \nwho are no longer even members of our organization drive a debate.\n\nI will support the organization with time and talents and continue to \nsupport it with my donations but I will not support it making poor \ndecisions with those same time and talents even as I continue to support \nit with money.  I will use what little ability I have elsewhere where it \nis effective if we make what in my mind are wrong decisions.  That is my \nright.  It has nothing to do with blackmail.  It is a simple statement \nof fact.  I cannot be effective if I do not believe in the job.\n\nBest 73's\nBob\nN4HY\n\n\nLuc Leblanc VE2DWE wrote:\n> I wrote:\n>\n> If AMSAT-NA is building sats in close circle they just have to openly admitted it\n> even if admission is not a very spoken word.\n>\n> Things seems to evoluate! and evolution often passed by revolution. We learn once upon the time \n> years ago some south the border choose to make a revolution as they seems it was the only one way \n> to achieve their goals. Are we starting to learn from the past?\n>\n> He wrote\n>\n>   \n>> I am not interested in flying a carbon copy of P3E \n>> when I know it makes no sense whatsoever.\n>>     \n>\n> I wrote:\n>\n> Who is driving AMSAT-NA an hollow BOD? an hollow president? Or a third builders\n> manipulating wing \n> who blackmail the BOD?\n>\n> None of them? I let the conclusion yours!\n>\n>\n>   \n\n-- \nAMSAT VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,\nNJQRP/AMQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR Wrk Grp Chairman\n\"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.\nYou pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los\nAngeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly\nthe same way: you send signals here, they receive them there.\nThe only difference is that there is no cat.\" - Einstein\n\n",
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