Hi Jim, Yes, that would be a possibility.
The "in between" is indeed a garage - technically attached to our home but as far as cabnle paths go, somewhat removed to to an obfuscated connection between respective attics. A spare, old PC is not scarce... may consider. Besides, who doesn't have CAT5 in their garage... or close to it? ;-) Another has suggested I just go ahead and home run the standard cables all the way to the shack / office so as to have manual control in addition to PZC control... and a simpler intermediate step. That will mean an additional splice block but can be done as long as the rotors are happy with a lengthier run... which was part of my initial concern. Thanks, Lowell ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:00:36 PM CDT From: Jim Walls <[email protected]> To: Amsat-BB <[email protected]> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Semi-remoting the controller for a Yaesu G5400 > Lowell White wrote: > > My Yaesu G-5400 rotor pair is about 150' from my shack. > > > > I am wanting to gauge the feasibility of putting the rotor controller within > > 100' (due to on-hand control cable lengths) of the antennas (in a garage). > > > > I would then run a separate (on-hand) PC-controller cable (fewer conductors as > > using the DIN interface on the back of the controller) to the rotor controller > > box from a PC and adapter / interface (if needed) in my shack (approx. 50'). > > > > Is it crazy to consider or should I just pony up for more of the (dual) rotor > > control cable and run the control box itself in my shack? > > > > What would I need to do at the PC end to appropriately 'signal' the > > 'semi-remote' control box. > > > > I am making an assumption, that may not be the case. I am assuming that > there is a protected location closer to the tower. For example the > tower is next to the garage and the shack is in the house. If that is > the case, what I would do is run the remote control PC at the remote > location, and control it over your LAN with a remote desktop program > such as VNC (http://www.realvnc.com/). That does make the assumption > that you have an extra PC floating around, but for most of us the > question is not IF we have one, but rather which of of the several > should I use... It also assumes that you have a house LAN - although if > you don't, most PCs these days have a network connection already built > in so it would be easy to implement. > > -- > 73 > ------------------------------------- > Jim Walls - K6CCC > [email protected] > Ofc: 818-548-4804 > http://home.earthlink.net/~k6ccc > AMSAT Member 32537 - WSWSS Member 395 > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
