So I drew up a basic block diagram of the system in Scheme-It. It does not feature the much needed AGC to prevent strong signals overdriving it, but that will be added on later versions. I should be able to do AGC on 2.4GHz and not the IF with a NXP BGA2031 variable gain amplifier for 700-2500MHz The chatch is the SOT363 case, which is not the most fun to work with, at least it has visible pins. I added a picture of the block diagram to the project pictures. 

This is the current system design:

Links:

Large block diagram: https://i.imgur.com/QLv9HPd.png

 The VGA http://www.nxp.com/products/rf/amplifiers/variable_gain_amplifiers/BGA2031.html