[amsat-bb] Update: Rent GEO bandwidth for US

[John Brier]

in line response...

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:19 PM David Swanson via AMSAT-BB
<amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
> You have approached this
> mailing list with a price and hype trying to convince folks this would be
> our own QO-100 over North America when it is certainly not. Have
> discussions, talk to folks, see if you can find some funding but be honest
> about what you're pitching.

She did not try to convince anyone this would be a QO-100 over NA. She
said the main thing it got us was R&D for the "aggregator" and that it
did NOT get us a true ham band downlink.

> In short, this is playing around with electronics. It is probably
> interesting to some folks on this list, but it is NOT Amateur Radio in any
> way shape or form. Please stop trying to pass it off as such.

If you build an aggregator as described it is similar to how many use
DMR or D-Star hotspots, which is partially ham radio, and more radio
than those because the downlink is RF.

73, John Brier KG4AKV