Of course that's how the commercial coastal stations of yore did full break-in; put the transmitters a number of miles from the receive site and key it via telephone lines. No need to mute the rx, no question whether the tx is working and the op knows exactly what it sounds like.
Is there really so much difference between remotely operating a rig and having a well-equipped 'club station' where Hams can come operate whenever they wished? At K6USA (6th Army Hq, Fort Ord, CA) we maintained two well-equipped "visitors" positions for Hams stationed there to come operate whenever they had time (One of my duties was to keep the station active when no visitors were there - tough duty, Hi!). Also, companies like Lockheed and many Colleges had very nice Ham club stations for just that purpose. IIRC, visitors operated K6USA under their own calls. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- I have a ham friend who lives in a studio apartment on the 13th floor. If he had a balcony he could attach a whip to the railing, but ND. It's a steel-frame building so indoor antennas are pretty useless. For someone like him I think a remote station would be a godsend. Some years ago, a local ham here in Santa Rosa who lived in a condo installed his ancient, rack-mounted Collins crystal-controlled CW transmitter at my QTH, connected to a dipole well up in the air. The control unit had a touch-tone decoder so he could access it via telephone, key the rig, and select one of two crystals. 40 meters only. But it allowed him to get on the air with a decent signal using a receiver and random wire antenna located at his condo. Full break in too! Alan N1AL ______________________________________________________________ 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
