On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Joe nss@mwt.net wrote:
But wow, Now what?
AMSAT, at some level, needs to get on the stick, make a decision, stick with it, then clean up the website to reflect that decision. If this were the ARRL, I'd harangue my Division Director about it and maybe, if I was lucky, something would happen (I've actually seen that happen once!). I've not paid enough attention to AMSAT in the past to know how to do that here and I've only been a member since Dayton.
As it is, you can pick your designators. You can choose 1994 (http://www.amsat.org/amsat/intro/sats_faq.html) or 1998 (ftp://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/press-releases/p3dfact2.pdf) and point to definitive documentation at AMSAT's own site. I bet if you googled a little harder, you could come up with others, even.
I've offered in the past to help clean up crufty old stuff on the site before and I make the same offer again. At the very least, the cruft needs to be marked as cruft with links to current documentation.