Perhaps they published that article because no one else had submitted one
for the simpler, more common sense method. They can't publish what they
don't have.
Myself, I don't let my life get too complicated.. (grin)
Just a thought.
73
Gil, W1RG
Just a thought.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Smithson" <n8wrl@att.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?
>I thought so too. I have an antenna controller that I built based on a
>microcontroller but it understands multiple antennas for the
> same band, remembers the last antenna I was on when I return to a band,
> and sends commands to an ACOM amp to 'tune' it for that band
> without having to key up. I was lucky enough to have it published in NCJ a
> few years back.
>
> I'm working on a new version of basically the same thing that can take
> band data input from four radios with the selected radio
> indicated by a signal from a 'NCS Multiswitcher' that I have. The idea is
> to have antenna selection come with all the same logic
> before but band data multiplexed based on audio/key/mic selections made on
> the multiswitcher.
>
> For me it's a fun learning experience because I'm a software guy by
> training so the home-brew hardware stuff is the challenge. It's
> also fun to write software for something with only a thousand bytes of
> RAM.
>
> The article is still good for me though - I get some ideas on line
> conditioning.
>
> 73!
>
> -Brian n8wrl
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Pete Smith
>> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 8:01 AM
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna Switching - Complexity for its own sake?
>>
>> The latest QST includes a lead tech article on an automatic
>> antenna switch controller that uses a PIC and a lot of other
>> parts on an expensive PC board to switch 5 antennas either
>> manually or in response to band data from various
>> transceivers. I must be missing something, because this
>> seems like a LOT of trouble for less capability than could be
>> gotten from a $20 W9XT band decoder card and a few added
>> components. I know that there are some radios that don't
>> provide BCD band data, but that problem is usually dealt with
>> by running a computer program that provides the band data on
>> an LPT port.
>>
>> For this they burn 8 pages?
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>> The World HF Contest Station Database
>> was updated on 18 August 2005
>> 2988 contest stations at
>> www.pvrc.org/WCSD/WCSDsearch.htm
>>
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