This is one point I wanted to know when I asked Hans about the meaning of his words mainly and problems.
Unfortunately, he refused to answer to me, to us, the satellite community.
Since he didn’t come back to the forum, I wrote Hans by email on this matter.
His reply to it in the end was:
In my view the “community" is happy with the general explanation that I gave and think that it is just you who wants more information on this individual case.
At least the likes on the regarding post and the following fact show that his view is wrong.
Hans also refused to respond to the team’s calls for help, after they got his decline on frequency coordination in 2021.
Unfortunately, the team is not able to solve this issue alone.
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In my email contact with Hans it became obvious that he doesn’t want to discuss this matter on the forum with the satellite community. Instead he wrote:
I am happy to invite DO4ROL
(the responsible radio amateur)
However, after asking him why he then just don’t put his email address into the CC field to do the invitation, his answer was:
I will not waste more time on it.
Looking at a discussion of such a problem as a waste of time can neither be in the interest of the amateur radio nor its satellite community.
By this behaviour he not only endangers the amateur radio, but also ignores his tasks as the satellite advisor according to the resolutions and policies of the administrative council (…) of the IARU
to consult with and liaise with the satellite Community as appropriate (page 32)
And in addition and what I really miss here since this is also about the behaviour of the advisor:
A co-ordination and advisory role requiring (…) good interpersonal skills (…) (page 31)
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If this was the only unplausible decision from the IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination:
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ONDOSAT-OWL-1 and -2
“Main mission provides a message store-and-forward capability to the amateur operators on amateur UHF band” (and more)
→ In the absence of an amateur radio mission coordination has been declined -
KAFASAT
“mission is to photograph the Earth using on-board camera and transmit the images to a ground station”
In their article about KAFASAT you can read:
“image recognition of battlefield in accordance with the aspect of future-war-environment.”
coordinated -
OOV Cube
No amateur mission at all stated on the coordination website.
The operators write on the satellite page besides the receiving and decoding of the telemetry beacons, about trainings for students.
coordinated
The QUBE team does that too, among other benefits for the community.
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Looking at all these decisions, stricter rules cannot explain them just as little as they can explain such behaviour.
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Does it make sense to you to derive consequences for us from those intransparent decisions?
Do you want to take over decisions from someone who’s not willing to explain them if asked for, and not answering to the responsible’s calls for help?
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The merge request of SatNOGS decoder for QUBE (built by the team itself) has already been approved and merged by @DL4PD.
You may wonder why the data tab of QUBE’s SatNOGS DB entry shows No Decoders Found.
It’s because the satellite’s transmitter is tagged as IARU Declined.
=> Currently, the decoder is of no use for us not even to build a dashboard.
This all together is why I’m now asking everyone of this community to decide whether you want to leave the coordination status as it is or to show the QUBE team our appreciation and in the end give us all a chance and open up possibilities with this satellite.
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- left as it is (IARU Declined)
[=> decoder, dashboard and data exports are not usable/possible] - set to “N/A”
[=> decoder, dashboard and data exports are usable/possible]
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This poll ends 2024-11-19 at 20:00 UTC.
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Daniel, dl7ndr