[amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal

DOMINICK INTERDONATO morsesat at optonline.net
Fri Sep 10 07:03:20 PDT 2010 

Please understand that we must be politically correct at ALL times. 
(Nuts) Of course I am kidding.  I wanted to add my 2cents to this thread 
since I know you all and no one thinks anything nefarious is happening. 
With ALL volunteer organizations with our "HUGE" budgets, things get 
left behind or not even thought about.
I, for one, believe that AMSAT does some things better than most other 
organizations and also leaves things to be desired in other areas.  If 
we keep in mind the ultimate goal of satellite communications for "us" 
hams, we will keep our group moving in the right direction(no, not the 
political right).  Cheers to all you volunteers.
73,

Dee, NB2F


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Rick Tejera wrote:

> Ed,
>
> I understand fully. I'm the editor of my Astronomy Club's newsletter, 
> A much
> smaller publication than the Journal and I've experienced everything 
> you
> have as well.
> It's important to balance all the things in life and as I've mentioned 
> to
> folks, it's a hobby and life likes to throw higher priorities in your 
> way
> more oft than not.
> I'm sure all appreciate your efforts.
>
> Once I get a few bucks stashed off, I'll send my check in to join 
> AMSAT. And
> I've got an article Idea for you.
>
> 73
>
> Clear Skies
>
> Rick Tejera
> Editor SACnews,
> Public Outreach Coordinator
> Saguaro Astronomy Club
> Phoenix, Arizona
> www.saguaroastro.org
> saguaroastro at cox.net K7TEJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] 
> On
> Behalf Of Ed Long
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 20:01
> To: gary_mayfield at hotmail.com; andres at msu.edu; AMSAT-BB
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal
>
>
> Everyone,
>
> First - sorry for the slow response to this thread. Seems like 
> everything I
> do is late!!!
>
> Second - the Journal delays are due to a number of factors. The two 
> greatest
> factors are a lack of publishable articles and me. I frequently have a 
> lack
> of enough articles to produce a full issue on time. So I delay 
> publication
> until I can get enough content to publish an issue. Secondly, I have a 
> real
> job and busy life and I frequently have to travel. (Ask Barry how many 
> times
> he's called me and I was in England or China or some far away place 
> like
> that.) That prevents me from working on the Journal and that delays 
> things
> sometimes. I try my best to get the Journal to you on time, but it 
> seems
> that most times I am unsuccessful.
>
> The plan is to send the Journal to the printer the first week of the 
> second
> month shown on the cover. For example, the January/February issue 
> should go
> to the printer the first week of February. The printer should get it 
> into
> the mail the week after that so that you would receive the issue mid 
> to late
> February. That should hold true throughout the year. Unfortunately it
> doesn't happen that way very often, thus the delays. AMSAT certainly 
> is NOT
> delaying the Journal - I am - for the reasons above.
>
> So I apologize for the delays. I do try to provide you with a quality
> Journal with a variety of interesting and informative articles. Thanks 
> to
> the great people that contribute to the Journal and my associate 
> editors,
> Bill Hook and JoAnne Maaenpaa, we eventually get there with each 
> issue.
> Despite the fact that I've been late, we have NOT completely missed 
> any
> issues.
>
> I hope this explains things a bit. I know it's not acceptable, but we 
> try to
> do the very best we can.  BTW - the July/August issue went to the 
> printer
> last week so it's running late too. This delay was due to me this 
> time.
> Houston was HOT!!!
>
> Ed Long
> WA4SWJ
> Editor, The AMSAT Journal
>  ----
>
>
>
>> From: gary_mayfield at hotmail.com
>> To: andres at msu.edu; amsat-bb at amsat.org
>> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:09:23 -0500
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>>    I believe AMSAT is sending the Journal, and I don't remember 
>> claiming
>> they weren't.  I also know it quite often doesn't get here.  It is 
>> the
> only
>> piece of regularly scheduled mail I have trouble with.  I suspect the
> postal
>> service is having problems between me and AMSAT.  I was just checking 
>> to
> see
>> if that has happened again.  The answer I got leads me to believe it 
>> is
> too
>> soon to tell with this issue of the magazine.  I asked the original
> question
>> simply because it is very difficult to know when you were supposed to 
>> get
>> something you didn't get :-)
>> 73,
>> Joe kk0sd
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of STeve Andre'
>> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:30 AM
>> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Latest AMSAT Journal
>>
>> On Saturday 28 August 2010 00:24:10 Gary "Joe" Mayfield wrote:
>>> Gould,
>>>
>>>      Please don't take my message the wrong way.  I love the 
>>> journal,
> but
>>> have had MANY delivery issues.  I have yet to receive the May/June
> issue.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Joe kk0sd
>>
>> Joe,
>> Don't assume that AMSAT didn't send it to you 'till you've verified 
>> it
> with
>> them and they think they had a problem.
>>
>> I've had delivery issues on things too, and it is the fault of the 
>> Post Office.  Your local PO can range from fantastic to wretched, and 
>> here in
>> Ann Arbor MI, it seems like we're more towards the wrong end of the
>> scale.  One issue of QST had a completely mangled front cover, so bad
>> that I called the PO here and complained.  The response was... "Oh.".
>> Lansing MI on the other hand, has such an efficient system that a 
>> letter mail to my home town of Ann Arbor *gets there faster* than the
>> same thing mailed *in* Ann Arbor in most cases.
>>
>> So when the ham mag you've been waiting for looks like a war refugee,
>> or has been AWOL for 1 week+, think about the system that carries it
>> to you.  Note: This is not a rant against the USPO--I support it, but 
>> I
>> think
>> it needs help, and I don't think that money is the answer.
>>
>> --STeve Andre'
>> wb8wsf  en82
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