On: Planes Landing in Beijing: Video from Space

[bane]

Not necessarily, you still need to collect the transmission. You can still saturate a frequency no matter how focused if enough transmitters are hitting the same receiver.

[ajcarpy2005 → bane]

Exactly. So just deploy enough receivers and focus the transmissions enough so that the frequencies don't get saturated.

[JoeAltmaier → ajcarpy2005]

Or the receivers track the satellites. This can be done electronically, no need for swivels and servos, just an array.