[AMSAT-BB] Just an idea - LEO FM birds

Dear All,

As FM birds seems to be very popular I believe that we may have a chance to deliver and improve this service to the community without much cost, as follows:

There are many commercial LEO constellations being implemented, the biggest is probably space-x Starlink but for our purpose there are many others.

If we copy with pride the QO-100 example/concept in the GEO sphere which is to piggyback on commercial missions to have a transponder on board. thus using just simple FM repeaters (analog/no TLM or intelligence) using the main mission PSU we can have also our own constellation to enable huge coverage.

Just an idea which I wanted to share hoping it will eventually trigger a project.

73

Jean Marc (3B8DU)