For the past several months I've greatly enjoyed my new SDR-1000. Not only is it a great rig but the SDR community provides tremendous support to the new users like me. At the same time Flex-Radio, the HPSDR group and individuals like K6JCA are moving the SDR capabilities forward at an incredible rate. So I’ve wanted to make a small contribution in return for all the fun and learning I have experienced.
Most of the time people think of remote operation as something for those with remote sites on some mountain top. But remote operation can be just as fun around your home QTH. Personally I don’t like always being tied to the shack when doing my ham radio so in this always connected world I have been experimenting with ways to do remote audio to the SDR-1000 without an extra sound card. By using VAC (hopefully soon to be replaced with Phil Covington’s vSOUND), a free VOIP program and XP's Remote Desktop I have been able to setup a virtual shack I can carry around the QTH. Recently Flex-Radio has posted a paper with my setup on their Expert Setups page: <http://www.flex-radio.com/Expert_Setups/remote_audio.htm> If you already have VAC 3.12 on your SDR computer and a remote computer connected by a high speed connection (a Wi-Fi connected laptop is perfect) you are ready for local remote operation. So take a look at the paper and give it a try. You may find yourself making QSOs while BBQing in your back yard this July 4 weekend. Mark N6SF _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
