If that is true, I hope that Director Thompson will share her reasoning.
However, I also wonder about the chain of command in AMSAT if a single Director can pull a sponsorship/advertisement from somewhere, but the President of AMSAT can't/didn't do anything about it? How does a single Director have more authority over this sort of thing compared to the organization's President?
Steve AI9IN ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Bankston (ke4alabama@gmail.com) Date: 03/15/21 10:39 To: Michael Walker (va3mw@portcredit.net) Cc: AMSAT (amsat-bb@amsat.org) Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: . Re: QSO Today Virtual HamFest
"What I want to understand is why was AMSAT absent? You had thousands of registered guests and you still will for another 27 days of advertising. Not one AMSAT logo anywhere.
Mike va3mw"
That is a great question. AMSAT was ready to go. Our volunteers spent countless hours organizing our presence at Ham Expo and the AMSAT logo spent months on the HamExpo page as an Exhibitor.
Then, on February 18th, AMSAT Director Thompson unilaterally informed Eric Guth to pull AMSAT from all participation in Ham Expo and remove the AMSAT logo.
Up to that point the presentation auditorium and the booth was called the "World of AMSAT." The next day, it was changed to the "Amateur Space Radio Exhibit."
73,
Robert Bankston, KE4AL President Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT)