Luc:
There is no blackmail involved. I am capable of doing many different things. YOU elect the board of directors and they will choose the direction of the organization given your input and their own personal biases. <I> choose whether or not their goals and directions interest me enough to participate. If they choose a direction I absolutely believe to be bad for amateur radio and the organization, why would I take my valuable volunteer time to support it? It is a simple statement of facts. I am uninterested in doing what I think is wrong. I support P3E. I think it is the right thing for now. I do not support a duplicate of P3E because I do not want to attempt to hit the magic inclination with a 2000 m/s set of burns and I want to be able to support transponder operations on all major packages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If we do not do this, we are not answering the AMSAT vision statement which says that is what we will do. I am attempting to lead the engineering VOLUNTEERS to volunteer to meet that goal. If the organization does not wish to support that, my leadership is ineffective, and while I can help the organization, my time and talents are in demand elsewhere and they will be better served and will have a greater impact on amateur radio. I do not wish to duplicate that which was designed in 1980 for a complete different era. The phase 3 program is an engineering marvel. It is essentially one man's absolute genius (Karl) incarnated and captured to varying degrees by the rest of us as the supporting cast. But I do not believe it is appropriate for 2010-2020 given the launch environment, the RF environment, and the legal environment. The frame is too small to support the antennas required to use multiple satellites even to support 7/24 operations. We need a larger frame to support the phased arrays to meet the 70% availability and on and on and on.
I am not emotional about these engineering decisions. I get emotional when people do not use the minds they have been given and allow people who are no longer even members of our organization drive a debate.
I will support the organization with time and talents and continue to support it with my donations but I will not support it making poor decisions with those same time and talents even as I continue to support it with money. I will use what little ability I have elsewhere where it is effective if we make what in my mind are wrong decisions. That is my right. It has nothing to do with blackmail. It is a simple statement of fact. I cannot be effective if I do not believe in the job.
Best 73's Bob N4HY
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE wrote:
I wrote:
If AMSAT-NA is building sats in close circle they just have to openly admitted it even if admission is not a very spoken word.
Things seems to evoluate! and evolution often passed by revolution. We learn once upon the time years ago some south the border choose to make a revolution as they seems it was the only one way to achieve their goals. Are we starting to learn from the past?
He wrote
I am not interested in flying a carbon copy of P3E when I know it makes no sense whatsoever.
I wrote:
Who is driving AMSAT-NA an hollow BOD? an hollow president? Or a third builders manipulating wing who blackmail the BOD?
None of them? I let the conclusion yours!