Mike, The LDG TW-2 talking power monitor appears to be ideally suited to your application, since all you need is to provide switch closures to the unit and then apply the audio output to the controller for transmission. If you were to use a commercial forward/reverse power monitoring module from EMR or Telewave, you would need to amplify and scale the outputs, create voice macros, and do the calculations to generate meaningful SWR announcements. That's a lot of work!
I have no personal experience with the LDG TW-2, but I am awaiting the arrival of one, and I will be happy to share my findings and interface suggestions with you and any others who are interested in this unique application. One question comes to mind: Is it really necessary that you know exactly what the forward/reverse power readings are, or the SWR, or are you concerned about whether the values have drifted outside a certain tolerance? I think that I would want to hear a voice notification that power is abnormally low, or the SWR is abnormally high, rather than the value. 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 4:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Remote power monitoring I'm interested in remotely monitoring the power/SWR at the repeater site and having the ability to have a macro poll the device and report status over the repeater output. I see that LDG makes a power meter with a voice output that I could probably interface, but is there something designed more specifically for the application I have in mind? The controller is a CAT-1000. Ideas? Mike WM4B
