Yes, it might be OK to give up full break-in to get the remote control capability. A lot of people don't use it anyway.
Right now I am helping out a local non-profit radio station which needs to temporarily move their studio while the old one is brought up to code. I'm looking at the Barix Instreamer and Exstreamer, a pair of little boxes that allow streaming audio over the web between the studio and a remote transmitter. Of course latency is not a concern in a one-way transmission like that. Alan N1AL On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 22:37 +0200, Oliver Dröse wrote: > Alan, > > no problem at all and no dream anymore, the www.remoterig.com solution has > everything you mention already built-in, from VoIP to an own CW keyer also > taking care of the internet delays. Works like a charme (am using it with a > IC-706 with the control head being 700 km away from the rest of the radio > and everything else) and no problems even with 80 ms latency (read round > trip time). Full control over the radio, exactly the same functionality as > if the control head was directly connected to the radio. Have made almost > 1.500 QSOs with that solution during the last 2 years (not that active due > to QRL reasons). > > Besides "modes" in their controllers for remoting the IC-706's or TS-480's > heads over the internet they also have profiles for using it with serial > connections for radio control, i.e. CAT. So a "self-made radio head" is no > problem either, have tried that "half-way" myself already with a small PIC > display I built for my FT-817. So just create a front panel, send all button > presses as CAT commands to the remoted radio, connect the microphone, key > and speaker directly to the remoterig controller and et voila, ready's your > remote station with an Elecraft remote head. :-)) > > You can do that with a CAT software on the PC, too, i.e. Ham Radio Deluxe. > But then you'll loose the "feeling of spinning the dial" that's why I opted > for the remote head solution with the IC-706 although the radio is really > not the best (and no comparison to my K3, of course ;-)). > > I think this would be a real seller! Kenwood recently started producing and > selling remote heads for their TS-480's seperately besides "complete" > transceivers as people are starting to share their remote solutions so you > need 3 or 4 heads for 3 or 4 guys to access the same radio (not at once, of > course). ;-)) > > 73, Olli - DH8BQA > Elecraft K3 #4546 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Bloom" <[email protected]> > To: "Torsten Clay" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:26 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] Remote control > > > > 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 > > > > > > ----- > > eMail ist virenfrei. > > Von AVG uberpruft - www.avg.de > > Version: 10.0.1375 / Virendatenbank: 1509/3645 - Ausgabedatum: 18.05.2011 > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
