Reasonably sure?
To be honest, all I see in email communication over the past year is, well, crap. This has allowed me to draw this conclusion.
If you were to poll the paid membership and ask if they are pleased with AMSAT today and how our funds are being utilized, I might be surprised at the answer.
I don't have time to stay on top of AMSAT. My very simple expectation is that new exciting things happen and that I can then use them for making contacts.
All I have read about is politics and how the Amsat name was pulled from the largest virtual hamfest of the year.
If money needs to be spent, it needs to be spent on marketing. All I keep seeing is the parents of the family in a big argument.
(I'm done, I made my point. Last time I will mention it)
73, Mike va3mw
This is the Mission:
Mission
AMSAT’s goal is to foster Amateur Radio’s participation in space research and communication. The Organization was founded to continue the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR, a west coast USA-based group which built and launched the very first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR, on December 12, 1961, barely four years after the launch of Russia’s first Sputnik.