[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Election Reminder

2012-08-05 Thread Alan P. Biddle
Stefan, They went out shortly before July 15th, per the bylaws. Definitely check with Martha (at) AMSAT (dot) ORG Monday. 73s, Alan WA4SCA -Original Message- From: Stefan Wagener [mailto:wagen...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2012 6:08 PM To: apbid...@mailaps.org Cc: AMSAT-BB;

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Election Reminder

2012-08-05 Thread Stefan Wagener
I guess it takes longer for Canada? Stefan, VE4NSA On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Alan P. Biddle wrote: > By now, all members in good standing of AMSAT-NA should have received their > ballots, including the position biographies by the candidates. Additional > information for those interested

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread i8cvs
Hi, WA4HFN I agree with you and what you said is why I still speak italian in my country ! 73" de i8CVS Domenico - Original Message - From: To: "Ted" Cc: "AMSAT" Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 1:50 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opini

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread Jerry
Atta boy Ted! K7LY On 6/29/2011 2:41 PM, Ted wrote: > And AMSAT is not the place to debate politics. His comments were a public > insult. And THAT is my opinion. Maybe you two are too young to remember who > saved Europe's ass 5 years ago > > -Original Message- > From: Nigel A. Gunn [mailt

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread Michael Schulz
n" > Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org, "Gordon JC Pearce" > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:41:53 PM > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board& political opinion > > And AMSAT is not the place to debate politics. His comments were a public > insult. And THAT is my opinion. May

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread wa4hfn
t;Ted" To: "Nigel A. Gunn" Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org, "Gordon JC Pearce" Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:41:53 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion And AMSAT is not the place to debate politics. His comments were a public insult. And THAT is my op

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion- take this somewhere else

2011-06-29 Thread jmfranke
Please take this somewhere else. John WA4WDL -- From: "Nigel A. Gunn" Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:25 PM To: "Ted" Cc: ; "'Gordon JC Pearce'" Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & politic

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread Ted
And AMSAT is not the place to debate politics. His comments were a public insult. And THAT is my opinion. Maybe you two are too young to remember who saved Europe's ass 5 years ago -Original Message- From: Nigel A. Gunn [mailto:ni...@ngunn.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:26 PM To: T

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board & political opinion

2011-06-29 Thread Nigel A. Gunn
Ted. As, for decades, the US government has seen fit to force itself upon any country with which it doesn't agree, anyone, anywhere has a right to an opinion, even if it doesn't suit you. I don't agree with Gordon most of the time but he has a right. On 29/06/11 22:11, Ted wrote: > Also,you

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board Candidates' Bios

2010-08-08 Thread Donald Jacob
I agree. Don WB5EKU On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Clint Bradford wrote: > Don't want this to turn into a political rant thread ... But as I peruse the > biographies of the fine folks who are running for AMSAT's BOD, I wish the > current board would just quickly meet and vote to increase th

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Tondee
I can't for the life of me understand the point in people using terms that tend to divide AMSAT into different groups or warring factions. The last thing in the world this organization needs right now is to be divided about anything. I don't think the people you derisively refer to as " FM'er

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen E. Belter
Original Message- > From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On > Behalf Of Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:07 PM > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates > > At 05:11 PM 6/16/20

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Bill Ress
Hi Rocky, The ARISSat-1 uses a linear transponder that is significantly more efficient. The COMM RX, CMD RX and the half watt output linear COMM TX only draws 420 mA at 8 VDC. The entire design can also be configured to run directly from 3.6 Vdc, which is conveniently the voltage of a Lithium

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 07:59 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, Gregg Wonderly wrote: >The important thing to remember is that radio communications must be hard >to do, require extra effort, if not repeated failure as well as >persecution by those who have succeeded one time before, and it is most >vital that anyone with existin

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Rocky Jones
> > Just have a look at PE1RAH William Leijenaar web page > http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/ > > and look at his nano sat transponder satellite > > http://www.qsl.net/pe1rah/mysat2.htm > > > > Luc Leblanc VE2DWE > Skype VE2DWE > www.qsl.net/ve2dwe > DSTAR urcall VE2DWE > WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATEL

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 05:11 PM 6/16/2010 -0400, g0...@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 16/06/2010 22:09:24 GMT Daylight Time, vlfis...@mcn.net >writes: >Why does everything always have to be FM all the time. >KB7ADL > > >But doesn't Arissat-1 include a linear transponder ?? > >David Arissat will be fun, but obje

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 10:27 PM 6/16/2010 -0400, Anthony Monteiro wrote: >At 07:40 PM 6/16/2010, Dave Guimont wrote: >>I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I >>assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in > >Dear Dave and Vince and the group, > >You guys have to know that

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-17 Thread Luc Leblanc
On 16 Jun 2010 at 22:27, Anthony Monteiro wrote: Date sent: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:27:29 -0400 From: Anthony Monteiro Subject:[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates To: Dave Guimont , "Vince Fiscus, K

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Gregg Wonderly
2F > NJ AMSAT Coordinator > Remember-Dee is really a three letter word for HEO > > -Original Message- > From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On > Behalf Of Dave Guimont > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:41 PM > To: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL > Cc

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Tom Clark, K3IO
Vince asked: > Which of these candidates would support adding a Mode A linear transponder > to FOX, or any type of linear transponder for that matter. FOX will > already have a 2m receiver all you'd need to add is a 10m downlink > transmitter. Use a tape measure tape for the antennas. Not very

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Anthony Monteiro
At 07:40 PM 6/16/2010, Dave Guimont wrote: >I hope we are getting great financial support from the fm'ers. I >assume the reason for fm is the assumed cost of ssw/cw rigs in Dear Dave and Vince and the group, You guys have to know that I would love to put up a linear HEO and resurrect the +20 net

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Bruce Robertson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote: > At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, apbid...@mailaps.org wrote: >>It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to >>serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms: >> >>Tom Clark, K3IO >>Lou McFadin, W5DID >>

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Dee
, June 16, 2010 7:41 PM To: Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates At 02:58 PM 6/16/2010, you wrote: >At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, apbid...@mailaps.org wrote: > >It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been no

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Dave Guimont
At 02:58 PM 6/16/2010, you wrote: >At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, apbid...@mailaps.org wrote: > >It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to > >serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms: > > > >Tom Clark, K3IO > >Lou McFadin, W5DID > >Tony Monteiro, AA2TX >

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread G0MRF
In a message dated 16/06/2010 22:09:24 GMT Daylight Time, vlfis...@mcn.net writes: Why does everything always have to be FM all the time. KB7ADL But doesn't Arissat-1 include a linear transponder ?? David ___ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Op

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board of Directors Candidates

2010-06-16 Thread Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL
At 01:22 PM 6/16/2010 -0500, apbid...@mailaps.org wrote: >It is my pleasure to announce that the following have been nominated to >serve on the AMSAT Board of Directors for two year terms: > >Tom Clark, K3IO >Lou McFadin, W5DID >Tony Monteiro, AA2TX >Gould Smith, WA4SXM Which of these candidates

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board

2010-01-15 Thread Rocky Jones
produced very little of value in terms of working satellites in a long time Robert WB5MZO life member > From: clintbra...@earthlink.net > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:16:18 -0800 > To: amsat-bb@amsat.org > Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board > > >> ... The AMSAT BOD is more or

[amsat-bb] Re: AMSAT Board

2010-01-15 Thread Clint Bradford
>> ... The AMSAT BOD is more or less acting, in my view, like our politicians >> in Washington ie once they are elected they are to busy to listen to the >> people who make up the group ... Your membership experience in AMSAT - and in our democracy - is way different than mine. I send an email