I first started in amateur satellites back in the late '90's (I am just now getting my station back in working order after a long hiatus). You should have seen the webpage then. Today's is leaps and bounds ahead of the old one. As a matter-of-fact, I think you can peruse the old webpage here: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/AmsatHomeOld.html.
I got lots more information from the BB and from ANS. I would look at the ANS and figure out what birds I wanted to work, then I would go to the BB and ask questions. I also found that I learned a lot more if I just investigated for myself on a lot of stuff. I read articles in QST and the AMSAT Journal. Wow, there is still a plethora of information available. You can even go to the archived BB articles on the old webpage (maybe the new one too, I didn't dig that deeply).
I would be more than happy to Elmer someone in the West Alabama area or even via email, but I'm afraid I may have as many questions as the person I'm Elmering. When I got started there was a guy here who was willing to Elmer me, but I wanted to "do it myself." Granted, not everyone wants to "do it myself."
Someone mentioned starting an AMSAT wiki. I think that would be a great idea, but I am not sure how to go about starting something like that. However, I'd be willing to contribute to something like that.
Short version, information is still out there, you just have to be willing to dig through the gorilla dust to get to it.
73, Joel, W4JBB
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Glen Zook gzook@yahoo.com wrote:
The problem is that the volunteer function on the website hasn't been working for some time.
I tried several times to volunteer in areas that I have expertise and the system would not take the information. Finally, I gave up.
Glen, K9STH AMSAT 239/LM 463
Website: http://k9sth.com
--- On Tue, 9/8/09, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
So who among you would like to volunteer to rewrite some of the articles and bring them up to date?
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