Everyone,
First - sorry for the slow response to this thread. Seems like everything I do is late!!!
Second - the Journal delays are due to a number of factors. The two greatest factors are a lack of publishable articles and me. I frequently have a lack of enough articles to produce a full issue on time. So I delay publication until I can get enough content to publish an issue. Secondly, I have a real job and busy life and I frequently have to travel. (Ask Barry how many times he's called me and I was in England or China or some far away place like that.) That prevents me from working on the Journal and that delays things sometimes. I try my best to get the Journal to you on time, but it seems that most times I am unsuccessful.
The plan is to send the Journal to the printer the first week of the second month shown on the cover. For example, the January/February issue should go to the printer the first week of February. The printer should get it into the mail the week after that so that you would receive the issue mid to late February. That should hold true throughout the year. Unfortunately it doesn't happen that way very often, thus the delays. AMSAT certainly is NOT delaying the Journal - I am - for the reasons above.
So I apologize for the delays. I do try to provide you with a quality Journal with a variety of interesting and informative articles. Thanks to the great people that contribute to the Journal and my associate editors, Bill Hook and JoAnne Maaenpaa, we eventually get there with each issue. Despite the fact that I've been late, we have NOT completely missed any issues.
I hope this explains things a bit. I know it's not acceptable, but we try to do the very best we can. BTW - the July/August issue went to the printer last week so it's running late too. This delay was due to me this time. Houston was HOT!!!
Ed Long WA4SWJ Editor, The AMSAT Journal ----
From: gary_mayfield@hotmail.com To: andres@msu.edu; amsat-bb@amsat.org Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:09:23 -0500 Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal
Steve,
I believe AMSAT is sending the Journal, and I don't remember claiming they weren't. I also know it quite often doesn't get here. It is the only piece of regularly scheduled mail I have trouble with. I suspect the postal service is having problems between me and AMSAT. I was just checking to see if that has happened again. The answer I got leads me to believe it is too soon to tell with this issue of the magazine. I asked the original question simply because it is very difficult to know when you were supposed to get something you didn't get :-)
73, Joe kk0sd
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of STeve Andre' Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:30 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal
On Saturday 28 August 2010 00:24:10 Gary "Joe" Mayfield wrote:
Gould,
Please don't take my message the wrong way. I love the journal, buthave had MANY delivery issues. I have yet to receive the May/June issue.
73, Joe kk0sd
Joe,
Don't assume that AMSAT didn't send it to you 'till you've verified it with them and they think they had a problem.
I've had delivery issues on things too, and it is the fault of the Post Office. Your local PO can range from fantastic to wretched, and here in Ann Arbor MI, it seems like we're more towards the wrong end of the scale. One issue of QST had a completely mangled front cover, so bad that I called the PO here and complained. The response was... "Oh.". Lansing MI on the other hand, has such an efficient system that a letter mail to my home town of Ann Arbor *gets there faster* than the same thing mailed *in* Ann Arbor in most cases.
So when the ham mag you've been waiting for looks like a war refugee, or has been AWOL for 1 week+, think about the system that carries it to you. Note: This is not a rant against the USPO--I support it, but I think it needs help, and I don't think that money is the answer.
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