> I *do* have the discretionary funds available to become a member, but
> for one thing I find it slightly odd that international members pay more
> than members in the US, and also I have *no way of paying it*!
>
>
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> Gordon MM0YEQ
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It's pretty simple. It costs us much more to mail the
On 18-Jan-10 00:04, Unknown wrote:
> for one thing I find it slightly odd that international members pay more
> than members in the US,
Postage costs for the Journa are higher to "rest of the world".
Every bank account I have ever had
> (again, at least since I was 16) has had a debit car
At 11:04 AM 1/18/2010, Unknown wrote:
>my bank doesn't really offer them any more. I don't have a credit card
>either, because I don't need one. Every bank account I have ever had
>(again, at least since I was 16) has had a debit card facility.
>Moreover the design of the amsat.org payment gatew
$1.00 in 1975 had about the same buying power as $4.05 in 2009.
Annual inflation over this period was about 4.2%.
A 50$ life membership in 1975 worth 202.50$ in 2009 but the actual AMSAT-NA
life membership is at 880$!!!
I don't know how this 880$ has been calculated but someone will surely co
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 13:41 -0800, Glen Zook wrote:
> Not every AMSAT member has discretionary funds to contribute to the
> organization
I *do* have the discretionary funds available to become a member, but
for one thing I find it slightly odd that international members pay more
than members in
>> ... As for what I have personally contributed to AMSAT lately? Obviously
>> you haven't read the September/October 2009 issue of the AMSAT Journal!
No, I have. And you are to be lauded for your contributions to AMSAT. I am
sorry if I inferred that "monetary" contributions were the only pos
>
> "What have you done for AMSAT recently?" - is a much more appropriate
> discussion.
>
> Clint Bradford, K6LCS
> AMSAT President's Club member - for each of the past few years
> AMSAT benefactor
> ___
> Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expres
>
> All moot, of course. Your fifty bucks contributed years ago was exactly that
> - and nothing else - period. It was used back then - and any comparison to
> what it is worth today is valueless.
>
> "What have you done for AMSAT recently?" - is a much more appropriate
> discussion.
>
> Cl
Clint Bradford wrote:
>>> ... my $50 membership thirty years ago is worth $1,000,000 in 2010 dollars
>>> ...
>
> All moot, of course. Your fifty bucks contributed years ago was exactly that
> - and nothing else - period. It was used back then - and any comparison to
> what it is worth today is
Had not members contributed to AMSAT back in the early to mid 1970s there would
probably not even be an AMSAT today! So soon people forget their roots!
As for what I have personally contributed to AMSAT lately? Obviously you
haven't read the September/October 2009 issue of the AMSAT Journal!
>> ... my $50 membership thirty years ago is worth $1,000,000 in 2010 dollars
>> ...
All moot, of course. Your fifty bucks contributed years ago was exactly that -
and nothing else - period. It was used back then - and any comparison to what
it is worth today is valueless.
"What have you done
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