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

From: Robert Bankston ([email protected])
Date: 03/15/21 10:39
To: Michael Walker ([email protected])
Cc: AMSAT ([email protected])
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)