Yes, I had been thinking about ways to do that. It wouldn't be hard (I can say this because I'm not the one who would be doing it!) to have the radio spit out control commands whenever a button is pushed. An external box could package the RS-232 commands and send them over the Internet to control a remote K3.
The issue is what to do about the audio and CW keying. On voice modes, the audio wouldn't necessarily be a problem with a wide-band connection. They do it all the time with VOIP. But with CW, even a small fraction of a second delay would make full break-in impossible. You wouldn't be able to listen to your own transmitted signal since the delay would make it hard to send. You'd have to generate the sidetone locally and accept the fact that the RF comes out a little bit later. It's fun to dream... Alan N1AL On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 11:06 -0700, Torsten Clay wrote: > No, this would be to enable remote operation (over an internet link). No RF > would go between the panel and the K3. > > People are buying TS-480's or similar to run over remote links even if they > own a K3, because the 480 panel and main box can be easily remoted using ie > www.remoterig.com. > > Tor > N4OGW > > > > > --- On Thu, 5/19/11, Alan Bloom [via Elecraft] > <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Alan Bloom [via Elecraft] > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Something *really* new at Dayton from Elecraft > To: "Torsten Clay" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 12:20 PM > > > > You pretty much get that with the KX3 and the remote 100W amplifier. > > Use the amp in your home or mobile station and just unplug the KX3 > > (a.k.a. "front panel") when you want to go QRP backpacking. > > > Alan N1AL > > > > On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 07:56 -0700, Torsten Clay wrote: > > > Here's something you might consider (or maybe already have :) ) > > > > > > If the KX3 front panel is almost identical in controls to the K3, maybe it > > > could be paired with a K3 to act as a remote front panel. Similar to the > > > detachable panel functionality available with many current mobile rigs. The > > > advantage being that just the "panel" KX3 could operate as a self-contained > > > QRP radio. > > > > > > Tor > > > N4OGW > > > > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Something-really-new-at-Dayton-from-Elecraft-tp6380523p6382317.html > > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > Elecraft mailing list > > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > > > > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the > discussion below: > > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Something-really-new-at-Dayton-from-Elecraft-tp6380523p6382974.html > > > > To unsubscribe from Something *really* new at Dayton from > Elecraft, click here. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Something-really-new-at-Dayton-from-Elecraft-tp6380523p6383127.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
