Hi, as a cliff dweller in a large German city, with no chance of putting up my own antennas, according to the landlord, I am looking into possibilities of setting up a remote controlled station via the Internet using my K3.
Unfortunately, the front panel of the K3 is not easily detachable. I would like to suggest that Elecraft might want look in to the feasibility of offering a remoting box for the K3 with a K3 like front panel, which (together with interface equipment such as the Remoterig RRC-1258MkII) would offer complete, low latency control of the K3. Possibly such a box could also offer optional control of rotors, transverters, antenna switching, PAs, etc. I know at least one one OM, a contester, here in DL, who is using the RRC-1258MkII hardware the together with the detachable front of the Kenwood TS-480 via the Internet (ADSL) to control his day to day station. I haven't tried it out yet, but his experience appears to be surprisingly positive. The separate front panel is a really neat solution for this type of usage. Afaik, Remoterig uses a hardware codec, offering very low audio latency and a network latency jitter correction for CW keying. I don't know how well know the remote control system RRC-1258MkII is in the States, but there is a lot of information here <http://www.remoterig.com/>. vy 73 de toby, DD5FZ Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Remoterig and have no personal experience with it as of now. ______________________________________________________________ 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
