Toby Deinhardt wrote: > > 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. >
True, but it seemed a reasonable conclusion to jump to, especially when they are under a lot of customer pressure to develop other products such as linears. > 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. > Wouldn't VSPE or LP-Bridge solve that problem? 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. I agree, it's one reason I prefer using a real radio to an SDR. Perhaps in the future, when SDRs become more ubiquitous, someone will come up with a generic product that will allow people to design custom hardware interfaces to fully software defined radios. > 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. > I have no experience of Remoterig but most people seem to use Skype for remote audio and seem happy with it. I have used the W4MQ software and Skype to access a remote TS2000 and the audio was excellent in both directions. I wasn't aware of significant latency. ----- Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Product-suggestion-Remote-Panel-for-the-K3-tp4591132p4591995.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
