I concur. And from what I've seen at the AMSAT Symposium and Forums at hamfests, there aren't many of us that will be around to use these future dreams. Lets get real and help get P3E built and launched ASAP...

Keith N4ZQ

-- "Fred A Parker" fparker@paulbunyan.net wrote: After receiving a mailing today from Amsat written by Richard Hambly. I find it imposable to keep quite any longer. Has anyone heard of the saying, putting the cart before the horse. Amsat needs to finish at least one of there present projects before moving on to what in the end may well turn out to be a bunch of pipe dreams. I am speaking of the Mars mission and Geostationary packages. One year ago I was told that Cubesat II would be launched in the fall of 2007. As far as I know very little is done yet. Especially in the electronics end. Don't get me wrong all these ideas are great but lets get back to the basics and finish what we have started befor taking on anything new or nothing will get done. Fred KF0AK _______________________________________________

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