Display MoreHello OK9SGC and welcome to the board!
Technically possible, but as far as I know it's not legal to retransmit any transmission from Eumetcast.
Even if for individuals (non-commercial use) the license is free, you still need the personalized USB key and they exactly want to know who is receiving it? We can try to contact Eumetsat to check what's possible..
73 Peter
Thank you for the welcome.
I figured there could be legal/regulatory issues like this. I guess it all depends on the possible openness from Eumetsat's side, whether or not they would be interested in essentially re-establishing the LRIT/HRIT service but using QO-100 as a substitute satellite, and if they would be able to make a licensing exception. Otherwise the licensing page does state that a license is not needed for data older than 3 hours, only prohibiting redistribution of "Original Numerical Data", so something simple like applying compression or reducing the color depth from 10 to 8-bit may be enough. With compression I firmly believe that even a minimal 33ksps stream would be enough to fit decent quality images without really disturbing the WB transponder traffic.
Or alternatively just going analog and transmitting in fax/SSTV form in the newly established broadcast portion of the NB transponder like GB2RS would probably be transformative enough for the data to be exempt from licensing (the resolution and quality would be severely reduced).
Obviously in any case a statement or guidance from Eumetsat would be required.
I would also like to point out that full resolution images from Meteosat are accessible simply through the Internet, so the theoretical uplink station wouldn't really even need an Eumetcast receiver, and could just use an Eumetsat API to access these periodically.