[amsat-bb] idle comments - Idle SATs/Gridders

[JoAnne K9JKM]

Hi Bob,

> You may get personally ATTACKED in direct e-mails

Yeah, sometimes there is a bit of boorish behavior, it seems more via the internet than in direct conversations. I've shrugged off, or laughed off some interesting replies over the years ...

When I reported in the ANS bulletins AMSAT-DL's success using their big dish to accomplish the Earth-Venus-Earth path I received an e-mail from an Official Observer citing me for promoting poor amateur radio practices. No regular ham has a 20 meter dish and temporary authority to experiment with a few kilowatts on S-band.

When I mentioned that ARISSat-1 was in a way a Russian satellite since it had a Russian callsign, the experiment on board was by a Russian university, it was deployed by Russian cosmonauts on a Russian EVA ... I was warned by private e-mail that he was considering suing me if I kept promoting such un-American thoughts like that.

A private e-mail informed me that AMSAT had been taken out of that individual's will because of stuff I said.

I hear you on the satellites often. I spend most of my time tweaking my telemetry reception but I still hear the voice traffic ... you keep handing out the grids :-) Since telemetry doesn't count for Field Day I'll be switching over to voice on the linear sats so there goes the neighborhood for sure!

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73 de JoAnne K9JKM
k9jkm at amsat.org