Nigel, I only said that to give the hundreds of people that get copied on this BB to Be mindful that satellites are not put into orbit by the good graces of commercial entities. It takes some donations. Now, I do not tell everyone what to do (as accused) but we must become aware that getting this satellite in orbit took many hours of construction and sacrifice by our volunteers. I am a life member too. I do give every chance I can- If I sell something on Ebay, I donate something to the cause. I am a NJ coordinator and have spent many hours at hamfests and gave many demo's and talks to the ham community. I just don't want the AMSAT community to forget why we exist. I am also at the booth at the hamvention and love to discuss membership ideas and necessary ways to export my enthusiasm. Let's enjoy the sats in place and look for the future to get more up there. 73, Dee, NB2F
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Nigel A. Gunn, W8IFF/G8IFF Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 11:58 AM To: Amsat BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Information Request
No guilt. I paid for InstantTrack, Quicktrack 4 and The Station long before many
current operators were born, have been a life member of Amsat-NA since
1975 and a member of Amsat UK when I lived there. I must admit, I haven't made a donation to Amsat-NA since this years Hamvention. I guess that makes me tight fisted.
On 08/04/2011 03:38 PM, Dee wrote:
And you and Nigel should feel guilty about using the sats that
others
contribute to and support- Try putting up your own...Don't know
what
beef you have against those that are trying to get better sats in orbit, but if you continue to omit and not support the facts that
they
cost money and NEED support, so goes that end of the hobby...I for one, do not wish for this to happen-
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