[amsat-bb] Re: A0 40 replacement

[Bob- W7LRD]

regarding this latest AO-40 (sobsob) thread...If you do any satellite operation you should join AMSAT....if you join AMSAT you should contribute whatever additional you can afford, there are monthly plans available http://store.amsat.org/catalog/index.php?cPath=35&osCsid=f01nlhgn764rav8s261ipo2fn6 . If it's all about the bottom line (money), make it available. If you don't like AMSAT or the direction it is taking, start your own or join the BOD and fix it. It is essential I/we trust those in charge. I keep my AO40 QSL cards handy and show them to visitors, and I tell them yes it'll happen again. 
73 Bob W7LRD 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <Mat_62 at charter.net> 
To: amsat-bb at amsat.org 
Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 2:25:08 PM 
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: A0 40 replacement 

I'm almost fifty one years old and I'm now convinced that we will not 
see another HEO in orbit in my lifetime...if ever. The economic 
environment to do it just doesn't exist anymore. AMSAT has as much as 
told everyone that by abandoning their efforts and concentrating on LEO 
cubesats. No one is going to come out and say that we absolutely will 
never have one, they like to keep that glimmer of hope alive but the 
writing is on the wall. No one wants to be wrong more than I do but 
I'd bet you P3-E never flies. 
73, 
Michael, W4HIJ 

On 9/3/2013 3:32 PM, John Becker wrote: 
> Anything new on a replacement. 
> Have not see a thing myself. 
> 
> John 
> 
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