As somebody who has waited up until 3am many times, standing out in my yard holding an arrow antenna, hoping that AO-7 would be active in mode B and not have been flipped to mode A by a qro station, only to be disappointed, or hoped that HF propagation would go my way, so I could work some particular DX... I don’t really understand so many people having the attitude that these mode changes and stuff are to be treated like an airline or train schedule.
This is a hobby. It’s for fun. Volunteers put in time and effort to enable us to play with sats in our free time. These guys make a reasonable effort to advise everybody of mode changes, in consistent, publicly accessible ways. If you’re capable of operating a complex multi band/mode sat station with automated rotors, then you probably also have the technical skills to check twitter.com/amsat (no account needed!) along with your BB email...
- Matthew nj4y
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On Sep 22, 2019, at 23:48, Devin L. Ganger via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
From: Eli Caul wrote:
I love this BB, and I am one of those that has never had a Facebook or Twitter account. I hope that the folks in the know remember that not everyone uses Social Media, and post info where the rest of us can get at is as well.
This is a valid point.
At the same time, there are often compromise positions that can be taken. For example, Twitter can entirely be used to follow a team's updates simply by pointing your web browser to the URL for that team's account. You don't have to have a Twitter account, or logon, or anything. Instant status updates are literally what Twitter is designed for.
The problem with email lists is that email, despite its reputation today (thanks to the hard work of hundreds of thousands of engineers and architects), is *NOT GUARANTEED* to be instantaneous in delivery -- or, even, to guarantee delivery at all. I can't tell you how many messages from this very list I've received with 1-2 days of delay or more, or find them squirreled away in Junk Mail for whatever reason. I'm a professional email architect, I practically live on my computer, and there's nothing I can do about these delays and reroutes.
Some teams want the overhead of using multiple communication methods. Some don't. It's a choice of what is the most bang for the buck.
Every choice we make has consequences. Sometimes it is not possible to have it all.
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