Robert,
The first part of your e-mail appears to refer to an allegation Clint Bradford K6LCS recently posted on this mailing list, and on other mailing lists and forums. As I said on the QRZ satellite forum yesterday, Clint's allegations about me and that web site are false.
In the few times I have publicly criticized Clint in recent years, I did so with my name attached to what I posted, as I did on the eHam satellite forum in 2016:
https://www.eham.net/community/smf/index.php?topic=108627.15
This exchange led to a letter sent by Clint to AMSAT and me, which threatened AMSAT with legal action. I am not aware of AMSAT taking actions in response to his letter, and - based on AMSAT's 2016 IRS tax return - AMSAT did not spend any monies on legal expenses that year.
As for the other part of your e-mail, the "some reason" packets from your APRS Internet gateway stations no longer appear on the ariss.net web site, you and I had a conversation about that. One of your APRS gateways was rewriting packets received from the ISS packet digipeater, adding a tagline promoting the web site for your Space Communicator Club. The packets containing that tagline were injected into the APRS Internet System (APRS-IS), violating policies of that system. Those packets also cluttered the listing of packets recently heard from the ISS on the ariss.net web site. You told me at that time you were testing a function on one of your gateways to put that tagline onto packets, something that had been happening over the period of a few days. This included the 20-minute period you mentioned, when one of your gateways continued to send packets to the APRS-IS system after the ISS had moved away from North America.
As you stated, I contacted Steve Dimse K4HG. Steve owns the ariss.net and findu.com web sites, useful for displaying information on APRS packets. I asked Steve about the packets from your gateway that were showing up on his ariss.net web site. Steve reminded me of the APRS-IS policies regarding packets being submitted to that system. Other than appending the call sign of the gateway that received the packet to the packet path, no other modifications are supposed to be made to packets sent to the APRS-IS system. I mentioned that to you in a separate e-mail, even citing the policies as published on the aprs-is.net web site. I am aware that you and Steve also had an e-mail discussion about this around the same time.
After those e-mail exchanges, I heard from you that packets from your gateways would not appear on the ariss.net site. This appears to be an issue between you and Steve, as Steve maintains the ariss.net web site. I have no control over that, and - as far as I know - neither does AMSAT. Have you reached out to Steve recently?
73.
Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK