[amsat-bb] Upcoming satellite workshop on Saturday, August 26th

[Tucker McGuire]

I am glad that folks like Ruth KM4LAO, Sean KX9X, Patrick WD9EWK, and
others go and do demos of satellite operations for clubs. Even if you spark
interest in just 1 person out of 500 you've done a great job introducing
folks to a new part of the hobby!

I for one am not surprised folks haven't gotten interested after you've
gone and spoken to them, Andrew. If your interactions at these meetings are
anything like your "Internet persona" i.e. being condescending to those
asking questions, general rudeness, etc. chances are you're probably
driving folks away. Your negativity here is annoying and getting old quite
frankly.

Cheers,
Tucker
W4FS



On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Matthew Stevens <matthew at mrstevens.net>
wrote:

> I for one am glad that there are doers (like Ruth, WD9EWK, AK4WK, KX9X and
> many others I know) willing to go out and do demos like this.
>
> The non-doers can stay home and make disparaging comments on the internet
> if they like, that's not going to help one person become interested in this
> hobby. However one enthusiastic operator demoing at a radio club meeting
> just might.
>
> 73,
>
> - Matthew nj4y
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 23, 2017, at 20:51, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at tech-software.net> wrote:
> >
> > You know Ruth
> >
> > I read your email and I said to myself how many radio clubs and meetings
> have I spent trying to get others motivated to participate
> >
> > I have not yet had any one go that extra mile
> >
> > People I find are lazy and seem interested when they are not
> >
> > I have come to the conclusion that there will no those people that do
> and there are those people that don't
> >
> > I don't waste my time with the non doers
> >
> > Why should it take some else to get another motivated
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On 24 Aug 2017, at 11:34 am, Ruth <ruthwillet at att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I will be giving a satellite workshop this Saturday August 26th for the
> Amateur Radio Club of Columbia County in Georgia. I am looking forward to
> helping some more hams get on the birds! We will be on a few passes
> throughout the day from EM83, so I’d appreciate if you’d be listening for
> me and other operators on the FM birds. I’ll be demoing 12:31z SO-50 pass
> under my own callsign and then plan to help other operators get on the
> 17:59z AO-85 pass.
> >>
> >> All QSOs made under my callsign will be uploaded to LOTW.
> >>
> >> 73!
> >> Ruth
> >> KM4LAO
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