Where I see the potential personally is when I have to move from my
QTH and into some retirement or
assisted living facility. I'm in a CCnR neighborhood now (although
expiring in two years!!!) with limitations,
but an apartment in a "retirement" community will provide even more
challenges. A remote transceiver
and antenna would allow me to continue HF hamming.
Gary W7TEA
On Mar 29, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> I agree with you, yet can see both (or many ) sides of the issue. I
> personally want to turn the tuning knob myself. I use a computer for
> logging, with interface for frequency data to the computer. I do not
> control the rig with the computer, and I do not want to. (Yes I know
> there is a microprocessor inside the Omni VI so it is effectively a
> computer controlling the rig anyway)
>
> Suppose you lived in a really noisy location, perhaps Manassas, or
> some
> other place with BPL. Suppose that you and a couple of other ham
> friends
> went in together to buy a cheap square of dirt out in the boonies, and
> you put together a station there. You and your friends put up all the
> antennas and ran all the coax, and made everything work remotely. Then
> you go home and listen on your receiver there, hearing nothing but
> noise, or you listen on your internet linked (NOT using BPL!) station
> and can hear weak signals and work them, just like you had a QTH in
> the
> country.
>
> I can see how I might enjoy HF ham radio using a remote site.
>
> Ken N6KB
>
> Rob Atkinson, K5UJ wrote:
>> I am sorry but I would rather have my crummy rig and second rate
>> amp and
>> crummy deaf antennas in front of me, than have some kind of
>> fantastic hear
>> and work everything far away station under my control over the
>> web. If all
>> that's in front of me is a PC box, then I may as well be using
>> Echolink. To
>> me the thrill, magic, excitement and fun of radio come with my
>> antennas I
>> have made, my station I have set up, and rigs here with me; not
>> some super
>> station I've never seen with my own two eyes.
>>
>> 73,
>> rob / k5uj
>>
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