[amsat-bb] AMSAT BoD Election... Please Vote!

[E.Mike McCardel]

We are a volunteer organization. Perhaps, instead of criticizing, for the purpose of your personal gain, you could grab a handful of data and start analyzing. 
What you aren’t seeing is the lack of people doing the hard behind the scenes work to get everything done. Think of AMSAT as an ice cream cone. The ice cream is the fun part playing with satellite in space, making contacts and friends etc. Typically the ice cream over-expands the cone. The cone holds it up and if you squeeze too hard it crumbles and you lose all the fun. It takes a lot of people’s time, talent and treasure to design, test, fund, launch, activate and maintain a satellite. 
We should always be focusing on the next satellite. And, yes, we should be trying to figure out what happened to the ones that break. But it should never, is never, incumbent on one person to do so.
Just remember going forward we need us all, old guard, new guard, engineers, free thinkers, tinkers, PR people, educators, data mongers, accountants, operators, experimenters, writers, editors, philanthropists, and wackos. 
In the process of all of this I challenge you and everyone to, at the very least, to be honest and fair in your criticism. When we come out the other side we will indeed need each others help.

EMike McCardel, AA8EM
Past Senior Editor AMSAT News Service
Past AMSAT-NA VP Educational Relations
Former ARRL, Ohio Section, Affiliated Club Coordinator


> On Sep 8, 2020, at 3:11 AM, Jeff Johns <jeff30339 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Why be focusing on GOLF when he can’t answer why all the other satellites are failing?
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> If we don’t learn from shortcomings, how do we move forward?
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> Jeff WE4B 
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>>> On Sep 8, 2020, at 1:57 AM, E.Mike McCardel <mccardelm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Jeff stated “ A few days ago, one of the BoDs and the VP of  Engineering stated on that he couldn’t be bothered with the failure of AO-92 and that if anyone wanted to know what happened to it, they could look at the data but he was too busy to do so. ”
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>> This is incredibly misleading and distorted. The VP of engineering said no such thing. In fact if you take the time to actually read his statement he offered to share information if someone wanted to dig deeper. He did say that current engineering priorities were “focused on Golf”. This is a far cry from saying he couldn’t be bothered with the failure of AO-92.
>> You can look it up and read it for Yourself.
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>> People, please, do your fact checking and don’t be mislead by distortions of the truth. 
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>> EMike McCardel, AA8EM
>> Past Senior Editor AMSAT News Service
>> Past AMSAT-NA VP Educational Relations
>> Former ARRL, Ohio Section, Affiliated Club Coordinator
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>>>> On Sep 7, 2020, at 9:01 PM, Jeff Johns via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
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>>> A few days ago, one of the BoDs and the VP of  Engineering stated on QRZ.com that he couldn’t be bothered with the failure of AO-92 and that if anyone wanted to know what happened to it, they could look at the data but he was too busy to do so.