[amsat-bb] Fw: Re: Don't Fly SuitSat2 to ISS (rebuttal)

2009-08-23 Thread rwmcgwier
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: rwmcgw...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:05:42 To: Rocky Jones Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Don't Fly SuitSat2 to ISS (rebuttal) This note is based on an almost complete ignorance of both projects. On AO40 a signa

[amsat-bb] Re: BoD Elections

2009-08-28 Thread rwmcgwier
We don't need legal counsel, we already have a surplus with ITAR and reclaiming our property. I join joanne, I am sick of lawyers and whining malcontents, and want to have fun with this. Bob N4HY LM --Original Message-- From: JoAnne Maenpaa Sender: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org To: amsat

[amsat-bb] Re: Volunteered

2009-09-11 Thread rwmcgwier
Only if people end this nearly useless thread. This ground is so beaten down it is not funny. Member dues and most of their donations do not buy a single component. But to live to fight another day and to keep "those who can" thinking about things to do for those "those who use" and even "tho

[amsat-bb] Re: Volunteered

2009-09-12 Thread rwmcgwier
This is unadulterated bull shit made from whole cloth. We have a free launch just as we have always have. The russians, as is their right when they have command, decided with all the equipment modeled people coming up to toss all orlan suits without notice to us (and they owed us nothing).

[amsat-bb] Re: Understanding ITAR

2009-10-07 Thread rwmcgwier
It is. The book is available under the creative common license. Rules for ITAR and security procedures where ridiculous candidates are treated guilty until proven innocent kill the system. The calculation is explained beautifully by Doctorow in his "false positives" section. I read a couple

[amsat-bb] AO40

2009-10-15 Thread rwmcgwier
For the panels to be deployed, useful, etc. the spacecraft needs to be despun. For the despun spacecraft to work, the thermal control system must work. For the thermal control system to be trusted we would need to know that after the incidents the heat pipes were intact enough to function.

[amsat-bb] Re: Hopefully - Some ITAR Clarifications.

2009-10-27 Thread rwmcgwier
I don't think there is much to understand. We have been told it is impossible to follow the logically inconsistent rules. You must subject yourself or your group to the tyranny of the unelected bureaucrat. Preventing me from talking to amateur radio buddies about amateur radio satellites wi

[amsat-bb] Ares

2009-10-27 Thread rwmcgwier
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