We streamed the entire symposium in Chicago, granted it was audio only, but a lot of it depends on the hotels internet, this year BATC even warned that they might not be able to live stream if the hotel connection wasn't good. Last year they tried streaming the General Meeting, I caught the first bits, it was done with an iPad which may not be the best choice, streaming to the AMSAT Echolink reflector requires a couple of "backdoor" things to avoid timeouts and interference form other stations as we do with the ARISS contacts and I don't believe that bit of software is available for iPad. Also the hotel in San Jose may not have had good internet. I like the idea of live stream but I'm probably in the minority.

John - AG9D

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, N0JY n0jy@lavabit.com wrote:

Hopefully many will be able to come to the Symposium in October, and if they can't make it hopefully there will be some live streaming video so that we can all participate in AMSAT's program and future!

On 9/18/2012 12:18 PM, John Spasojevich wrote:

All of the above. Most care less about the politics. Even fewer actually would give their time to make a difference. But there never is a shortage of complainers.

John AG9D On Sep 18, 2012 11:57 AM, "N0JY" n0jy@lavabit.com wrote:

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Always makes me wonder, do people really not care, or does the board always do such a wonderful job that everyone is so happy no matter who is elected to the board?

Did all of the people who complain about AMSAT and the lack of this or that satellite or feature or they way they are built or when do we get another HEO or how someone failed once, did they all vote?

Seems to be true of anything anymore, only 10% of our homeowners showed up for the annual meeting. 5% of those had complaints that they only voice once a year at the annual meeting. I don't know if that means I'm doing a great job as a board member, or nobody gives a hoot either way.

73 Jerry N0JY