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    "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/MHDBOSPLF32HTHNLGDZJY37JYP5KETUP/?format=api",
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    "subject": "[amsat-bb] Re: On Easter, regarding negativity and renewal...",
    "date": "2008-03-23T22:29:23Z",
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    "content": "Well said! ditto\n73 Bob W7LRD\n\n--\n\"if this were easy, everyone would be doing it\"\n\n-------------- Original message -------------- \nFrom: Mark Vandewettering <[email protected]> \n\n> Hi all... \n> \n> As I awoke on this Easter Sunday, I was scanning my email (I subscribe \n> to lots of groups \n> and get lots of daily summaries) and once again found myself reading \n> amsat-bb. Amidst the \n> normal, pleasurable messages, I was again (as it seems to happen \n> weekly) faced with a \n> message of disappointment in AMSAT, this time by Brian Beckius. It \n> seems that whatever \n> he was searching for, he didn't find it in AMSAT, and thus proclaimed \n> to all that he wouldn't \n> be renewing his membership. \n> \n> He's not alone of course. Lots of people aren't very satisfied with \n> the current state of \n> AMSAT-NA or amateur satellites. It's not very hard to understand why: \n> launching satellites \n> actually _is_ rocket science. It's difficult, and even more difficult \n> with limited funds \n> and relying solely on the efforts of volunteers. But the simple fact \n> that it can be done \n> at _all_ should give everyone in amateur radio a sense of justified \n> pride. \n> \n> I'm a total newbie when it comes to satellites. I've worked mostly \n> the FM birds for less \n> than six months. I don't have L or S band equipment. I've never \n> worked AO-40 or any of the \n> RS birds. I am still trying to perfect my setup to work the linear \n> birds. But I have had \n> fun, and I've tried to pass on that spirit of fun to others, to let \n> them know just how much \n> enjoyment you can get, even with modest equipment, even by just \n> listening to what goes on. \n> \n> If you can't find a reason to renew your membership, don't. We are \n> all free to take our \n> dollars elsewhere, and to spend them how we see fit. If that $40 \n> makes you happier when \n> spent elsewhere, then I think you should spend it elsewhere. If that \n> donation of $100 or \n> whatever to a different organization makes you feel a greater sense of \n> altruism or \n> achievement, then by all means, send your money there. \n> \n> Me? I'm happy to be a member. I'm getting way more out my membership \n> than I put in, even \n> when the organization itself doesn't exactly meet my own personal \n> expectations of what they \n> can and should be doing. I'd like to see firm plans about where \n> AMSAT-NA is going, and \n> when launches will happen just like everyone else, but in the mean \n> time, I'll be happy doing \n> what I'm doing, and stretching what I can do with new projects as time \n> and money in my \n> rather hectic life allows. And I'll be looking to help new satellite \n> projects with donations \n> when I can. \n> \n> Maybe you aren't so happy. Maybe the loss of AO-40 and the slow \n> progress toward another \n> Phase 3 or Phase 4 makes you grumpy. Maybe you see the money spent on \n> a single channel \n> FM bird as a complete waste of time. There are lots of you out \n> there. I hear you on this \n> mailing list every few days. But here's the thing: no amount of \n> growsing about the state \n> of the amateur satellite service gets any hardware even a foot closer \n> to orbit. It doesn't \n> make even one more person smile. It doesn't help get even $1 donated \n> to the creation of \n> new amateur satellites. \n> \n> It's Easter. It's a time of renewal and rebirth. Cast aside some of \n> your bitter skepticism, \n> and rededicate yourself to trying to actually help make amateur \n> satellites a fun and rewarding \n> endeavor for all. \n> \n> Catch you on the birds... \n> \n> Mark KF6KYI \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 program! \n> Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb \n",
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