HAM radio is on the move.
Any survey will likely show that many hams only have time to play radio while mobile, and similarly, whenever a ham contemplates a long trip, his HAM radio is high on the priority list. Two meters is fun, and can bring emergency aid, but it just doesn't provide the nationwide coverage that is needed for the the mobile HAM traveler far from home, the offshore boater, or first-response teams arriving in a disaster area. The reason is that they are essentially duplicating a typical weak-signal home satellite station on wheels. There is no tuning or tracking required on the uplink since the doppler on 2m is less than 3 KHz. NO software or hardware on-orbit modifications to the satellite.