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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/FDLEEHZ4X7ZMCHPMVSYC2FM3PCVQCNC7/",
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    "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/FDLEEHZ4X7ZMCHPMVSYC2FM3PCVQCNC7/",
    "sender": {
        "address": "t.gentry (a) verizon.net",
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    "sender_name": "Tom Gentry",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] The chicken and the egg.syndrome.",
    "date": "2012-09-21T05:08:46Z",
    "parent": null,
    "children": [],
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    "content": "My name is Tom and my call is K5VOU. I am a life-member of AMSAT and the \nARRL as well as an Extra Class license holder. I have observed both \norganizations at work from the inside both as a volunteer and a vendor.  \nMy satellite ground station is an old Yaesu FT-726 and the antennas are \ncircularly polarized versions of Kent Britain's 'controlled impedance' \nVHF and UHF on a back yard tripod with the original KR-5400 prototype \nAZ-El rotor and the AMSAT tracker box connected to an X machine.  I am \nadding an SDR receiver/panadpter asap.\n\nBTW: The opinions expressed in this email are mine alone and you are not \nrequired to agree with them or condemn them. They are just my opinions \nand observations.\n\nHere are a few observations in brief;\n\n1) AMSAT is a meaningful organization filled with talented and well \nintentioned people interested in building, operating and communicating \nthrough space based radio systems via amateur radio.\n\n2) AMSAT is composed of two special interest groups, the creators of the \nradio/satellites and the communicators using the satellites.\n\n3) The creators depend on funding from the communicators.\n\n4) The communicators depend on the creators for space based radios \nthrough which to communicate.\n\n5) There is 'no free ride' to HEO and the communicators can not raise \nenough money to purchase a launch at market price.\n\n6) There is no government funding available to AMSAT.\n\n7) The regulatory climate is hostile to amateur radio satellites (ITAR).\n\nOpinion;\n\nThe AMSAT paradigm needs to change to allow the creators to get more \nradios into space for the communicators.  Well funded organizations are \nbuilding satellites with radios for telemetry and perhaps communication. \nOne possible solution to the observations is to get out of the launch \nbusiness completely and for the creators to build radios for other \norganizations creating satellites. These radios would include the \ncapabilities desired by the organization and also include the desired \nfunctionality for the communicators in order to get a ride to space.  In \nessence trade radios for rides.  This would allow AMSAT to use their \nknowledge and resources for building space based radios.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n",
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