in line response...
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:19 PM David Swanson via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@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