Hallo Julian, How economically viable a remote control box may or may not be and whether there are software hooks already available in the firmware, which would make this doable without an exhorbitant effort, would have to be judged by Elecraft. At any rate, at least here in Germany, it has become incresingly impossible for Hams to install antennas at home, especially in residental areas, so there may be a larger market for these kinds of products then one otherwise might think.
> Why not just use HRD or one of the many other software > based options to remote control the radio? A few reasons: 1) I use WinTest as logging software, especially during contests, and plan on doing so in the future. WinTest does not give you total control of the radio. The K3 "only" has one serial port, which would seem to preclude using a second bit of software simultaneously to control the rest of the radio's functions. 2) The interface of the K3's front panel is, imho, very good the way it is and not easily, in similar quality, replaceable with a computer keyboard, screen and mouse. 3) Encoding and decoding audio streams in a PC will, I think, cause more latency than a dedicated solution ala Remoterig. Latency is going to be a problem via the Internet anyhow, so anything which keeps it down is good. vy 73 de toby ______________________________________________________________ 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
