Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo.
When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never?
I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about.
I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort.
I know exactly what a cruise costs. I know precisely what it costs to put on events. I orchestrated a city-wide event for Riverside, CA (population 300K) that had about 7,000 attendees. From parking to logistics to communications to placing a repeater atop a local hill to working with each and every vendor - I know what it takes.
I also worked with the publicity director for a large regional newspaper. I have also been involved with several 501(c)(3) organizations with their fundraising and grant writing projects.
I also orchestrated an ARISS contact for my City of Jurupa Valley - earning FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PHOTOS coverage in California’s sixth-largest daily newspaper. Along with NPR interviews, coverage by other video outlets, video highlighted on the Bob Heil / Gordon West Ham Nation mediacast - I did it all for our students.
So you have no idea who I am or what I have done. Yet you spout your venom ...
A group in financial problems holding an annual event on a cruise. If you do not see how horrible that looks - from a public relations and marketing aspect - then you are either naive or just plain ignorant.
I acknowledged on the AMSAT-BB list that you made good points. You are welcome.
How I am “self-promoting” myself - actually “promoting working the birds” has proven effective. I am approached monthly by conventions, groups, municipalities, clubs - to find out more about working the FM birds. In that aspect - “spending the word” - I am tremendously successful.
… Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas …
Tell that to the Boy Scouts who used that barbed wire antenna to speak to an astronaut who was aboard the ISS at the time.
YOU are just one of a handful that, apparently, just don’t get it. Working a couple of the FM birds is not something one needs to put a lot of money in to. Is using barbed wire the same as spending $500+ and using an M2 2MCP28? Nope. DOES IT WORK FOR THIS? ABSOLUTELY.
… you act like it should work for everyone in every situation …
Bovine excrement. Can one make an effective 2M/440 antenna and work a bird or three? Absolutely.
… I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any school system …
Sorry to disappoint you - but I still volunteer for NASA and am earned my registered ARRL instructor position.
Clint Bradford K6LCS
PS By the way, I don’t see any posts from you suggesting tactics to “save” AMSAT-NA from its current financial problems. At least a few of us are … But not you …
Mr. Bradford,
You are partially correct in your statement about the 2011 AMSAT Symposium that was hosted in San Jose. You were involved in obtaining prizes that were awarded during that Symposium, but you did not attend that Symposium. I was there, enjoying what was for me the second AMSAT Symposium held on the west coast, after attending the 2006 Symposium that was hosted in Foster City CA, south of SFO airport.
During the 2011 Symposium, Mr. Bradford contacted me with two questions:
1. Did the prizes make it to the Symposium?
2. Was he recognized for his work in obtaining prizes?
I answered "yes" to both questions. There would have been no need to contact me and ask these questions, had he attended the Symposium.
I quickly went through the photos I took during the 2011 Symposium, where I had been taking photos of different people. Nothing with Mr. Bradford. I also looked in the AMSAT-BB archives and the archives of his own Yahoo! mailing list. No mention of being at the Symposium while it was taking place, and nothing after the Symposium referring to being there.
To use a quote of his from a recent post in another forum...
"Just for accuracy's sake."
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Clint Bradford clintbradford@mac.com wrote:
Well - good evening to you, too, Pablo.
When's the last time you attended a symposium? Ummm, never?
I just love it when truly ignorant statements are made - as if the writer knew anything about what they are talking about.
I attended an AMSAT Symposium when it was in San Jose, CA. I also accumulated one of the finest assemblage of raffle prizes AMSAT-NA has ever seen when I was prize coordinator for their symposium a couple years ago. Got a plaque signed by the AMSAT prez for that effort.
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