Anyone that was fortunate enough to witness the enthusiastic crowd at the AMSAT Satellite Demos at this year's Hamvention would know that a Satellite Demo/Workshop can be a big draw. Once people learn that Sat Communications can be easily done with simple inexpensive stations, the bug can bite them. One thing is for sure - when people do
nothing, nothing happens. Go get'em, Ruth! GL/73, Bob K8BL
________________________________ From: Tucker McGuire tucker@mcguireland.com To: Matthew Stevens matthew@mrstevens.net Cc: AMSAT -BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:09 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Upcoming satellite workshop on Saturday, August 26th
I am glad that folks like Ruth KM4LAO, Sean KX9X, Patrick WD9EWK, and others go and do demos of satellite operations for clubs. Even if you spark interest in just 1 person out of 500 you've done a great job introducing folks to a new part of the hobby!
I for one am not surprised folks haven't gotten interested after you've gone and spoken to them, Andrew. If your interactions at these meetings are anything like your "Internet persona" i.e. being condescending to those asking questions, general rudeness, etc. chances are you're probably driving folks away. Your negativity here is annoying and getting old quite frankly.
Cheers, Tucker W4FS
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Matthew Stevens matthew@mrstevens.net wrote:
I for one am glad that there are doers (like Ruth, WD9EWK, AK4WK, KX9X and many others I know) willing to go out and do demos like this.
The non-doers can stay home and make disparaging comments on the internet if they like, that's not going to help one person become interested in this hobby. However one enthusiastic operator demoing at a radio club meeting just might.
73,
- Matthew nj4y
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On Aug 23, 2017, at 20:51, Andrew Rich vk4tec@tech-software.net wrote:
You know Ruth
I read your email and I said to myself how many radio clubs and meetings
have I spent trying to get others motivated to participate
I have not yet had any one go that extra mile
People I find are lazy and seem interested when they are not
I have come to the conclusion that there will no those people that do
and there are those people that don't
I don't waste my time with the non doers
Why should it take some else to get another motivated
Andrew
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On 24 Aug 2017, at 11:34 am, Ruth ruthwillet@att.net wrote:
Hi all,
I will be giving a satellite workshop this Saturday August 26th for the
Amateur Radio Club of Columbia County in Georgia. I am looking forward to helping some more hams get on the birds! We will be on a few passes throughout the day from EM83, so I’d appreciate if you’d be listening for me and other operators on the FM birds. I’ll be demoing 12:31z SO-50 pass under my own callsign and then plan to help other operators get on the 17:59z AO-85 pass.
All QSOs made under my callsign will be uploaded to LOTW.
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