[amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium

[Robert McGwier]

I personally believe that False News is damaging.  It cannot be allowed to
go unanswered.  In many eyes,  silence is an admission of guilt.   When
someone, says something about AMSAT that is false, I feel the officers of
AMSAT have a duty to respond publicly.  As a mid-point between silence and
taking the individual to task,  I would make it a public statement and
never mention the individual.

On the symposium, AMSAT did not pay for it.  AMSAT paid for the board of
directors to go to Galveston and hold a board meeting in a hotel.  It would
have done that no matter where we assembled.  No board activities were held
on the ship.  The symposium was attended by board, officers, members,
interested persons, and guests.  Each of us paid for the cruise out of our
pockets.  I certaintly did not ask AMSAT to pay for my drinks or my side
trip to Chichen Nitza.  😇

The heated rhetoric and banter are not helpful and we should avoid them.  I
learned that the hard way getting to be 63 years old.

73s
Bob
N4HY



On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Ted <k7trkradio at charter.net> wrote:

> Excellent commentary, Pablo...
>
> Unfortunately, you took the bait, thus giving him another chance to toot
> his horn..
>
> Everyone knows what he is. Simply ignoring ANY of his posts is the way to
> deal with the problem.
>
> 73, K7TRK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On Behalf Of
> pablomiel70--- via AMSAT-BB
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 12:56 PM
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] AMSAT Symposium
>
> Clint Bragford K6LCS,
> Your posts amount to an epic fail. When AMSAT announced their 2016
> symposium would be on a ship, you immediately tried to sink it. You were
> shot down by numerous, well respected individuals who have something you
> haven't got -- humility. When's the last time you attended a symposium?
> Ummm, never? http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-
> January/056856.html http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2016-
> January/056858.htmlhttp://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/
> 2016-January/056859.html
> You have no idea what a symposium costs AMSAT. The meeting space, tea,
> coffee, etc. didn't cost AMSAT a dime on the cruise ship. Just because you
> don't like W5PFG, don't take it out on AMSAT. Your idiotic posts clearly
> demonstrate you can't tell the difference between a general meeting slide
> deck and the symposium event. You just have a bone to pick because someone
> out-did you, again. I like how you decided to bring the conversation to
> your personal domain (Yahoo Work-Scat) rather than publicly discuss on
> AMSAT's message forum, the AMSAT-BB. Petty and weak! While we are at it,
> why do you even care about AMSAT? A few months ago, you threatened them
> with legal action if they didn't "reign in" one of their most dedicated
> volunteers. That man, WD9EWK, happens to be one of the most generous and
> outspoken educators in the satellite community. You are not a team player
> and frankly I don't see why AMSAT didn't strip you of your "Area
> Coordinator" title sooner!
> Nobody cares about the "kudos" and "thank you" emails you supposedly get
> via email. Most of the time, you are talking to yourself on the
> self-promoting forum threads you scatter across the web. Intelligent people
> pick up on your silly auctions as a PR trick to get more website hits.
> Today you're promoting barbed wire antennas again on another forum. How
> silly? Barbed wire is not an effective material for constructing antennas.
> Because one guy did it as a novelty, you act like it should work for
> everyone in every situation.
> Face it, your advice sucks. Your frequency chart (which was wrong for a
> long time, BTW) is basically your one trick pony. Any videos of you working
> a satellite on YouTube demonstrate your novice skill level.
> I'm thankful this season that you are not a professional educator in any
> school system.
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-- 
Bob McGwier
Founder, Federated Wireless, Inc
Founder and Technical Advisor, HawkEye 360, Inc
Research Professor Virginia Tech
Chief Scientist:  The Ted and Karyn Hume Center for National Security and
Technology
Senior Member IEEE, Facebook: N4HYBob, ARS: N4HY
Faculty Advisor Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Assn. (K4KDJ)
Director of AMSAT and member of PVRC, TAPR, and life member of ARRL and
AMSAT