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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/JQJA4SCEV75PNZLWAKDATILRFIRWTMD5/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "JQJA4SCEV75PNZLWAKDATILRFIRWTMD5", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/J7BZX6NVGQTLCR6Z6D3IURIJSQEVHGFY/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "Mat_62 (a) charter.net", "mailman_id": "171b40085c2e4ecebefde213375137db", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/171b40085c2e4ecebefde213375137db/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Michael", "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: Another Great Tech Tuesday Net", "date": "2014-02-15T02:48:06Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PBUL57UPFU2LWQKZRE2S475TBF5YIV6G/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/X7SJ4Y2ZGUFD2DVQV5QMEN4XNIHCGFRR/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I'll just say this Kevin. I was a \"newbie\" to all this a few short years \nago too but you know what I did, I figured it out. I had no \"Elmer\" to \nguide me and I didn't need anyone like Clint holding and HT in one \nhand and an antenna in the other doing a demo to show me how \" easy\" it \nwas. In fact, had I seen such a thing at the time, it probably would \nhave turned me off to it more than anything. I enjoyed doing the \nresearch on antennas and rotator tracking systems and then building many \nof the items I needed. I then enjoyed the challenge of learning how to \nwork the birds. The demos to show how \"easy\" it all is certainly have \ntheir place but I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think we \nsometimes do ourselves a disservice by the de- emphasis of the tech side \nof things and how one can build a much more complex and entertaining \nground station if one so chooses. Sure you can scare people off by \ngetting overly involved with technical stuff but I bet you can scare \njust as many away by showing them how \"easy\" it is too. Don't even get \nme started on the \"instant gratification\" business. That's a major part \nof what's wrong with society today. Anything worth doing is worth \nworking for, but nobody seems to want to do that anymore.\n73,\nMichael, W4HIJ\nOn 2/14/2014 6:55 PM, Kevin Elliott wrote:\n> Perhaps that was a legitimate question hiding in there, but I read most of that as cheap shots at Clint. Will you please let it rest? You don’t have to like him, but I’d appreciate some positivity.\n>\n> Like you, I want to do satellite tracking hardware and not just point HTs at the birds and do manual doppler correction. But, there’s a very, very useful place for the newbie stuff that seems useless to you. Everyone benefits when the hobby grows, and overwhelming new people to the hobby with excessively technical projects can serve to scare them off. When more people join the hobby, more products are made, more competition between hardware manufacturers occurs, and the costs go down for all of us! That alone should be incentive for everyone to bring the newbies in.\n>\n> So, I’m not suggesting that anyone needs to lighten the technical offerings, or make anything more simple. But, I do think that anyone offering marketable material that attracts newbies, regardless of how simple it may be, should be welcome.\n>\n> We have to remember that there are people of all skill levels in this world, and not all of them are able to grasp things immediately. Sometimes, adding a lot of complexity isn’t fun for people looking for a little instant gratification. And it’s that fun that powers the interest in the hobby and creates a lifelong connection to it. So let’s avoid bashing anyone who likes “easysats” or anyone who wants to help others with them, OK?\n>\n> Kevin\n>\n> On Feb 14, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:\n>\n>> OK then, I have a legitimate satellite question. Is Fox 2 going to be a linear bird? See, I have some confusion on this. I could swear I read somewhere that it was yet another flying repeater just like Fox 1 is but then someone here told me I was mistaken. Since you're here Tony, I thought I'd ask you since I'm pretty sure you can give me a definitive answer. I mean after all, since we are talking about \" Tech\" as in technology, I'd be interested to know if there is going to be any technical challenge to working Fox 2 or if it will just be yet another ones of Clint's Easysats. Unlike some folks such as Clint, I don't delight in how \"easy\" it is to work a satellite and actually enjoy a challenge like I had when I first got into this part of the hobby and put my station together using the homebrew SAEBRTrack tracking system I built along with the OR-360 rotators that you told me where to find back then. Thank you btw.... I mean if people enjoy working \"easysats\" with an HT and a handheld antenna, that's all well and good. To each their own. It's just that I'd like a bit more of a challenge than that. Unfortunately I missed out on A0-40 which I understand took a fair amount of \"tech\" savvy to conquer. AO-7 and FO-29 were fun mixed with a bit of challenge though and even AO-51 was pretty cool trying to conquer the S band mode. I'd very much like to start putting my old homebrew antennas and rotators back in the air if I feel like it will result in some challenge and a sense of accomplishment and knowing that I did something that \"not just anyone can do\" instead of \"heck it's just so easy\" as Clint likes to point out..... If Fox 2 is a linear bird, I'll even put my money where my mouth is and renew my long dormant membership in AMSAT because I will feel that they are moving in a direction that I and many others have interest in. If it's just another flying repeater though well..... YAWN....I'm getting sleepy now.\n>> 73,\n>> Michael, W4HIJ\n>>\n\n\n\n", "attachments": [] }