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Re: [TowerTalk] Radio remote control?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radio remote control?
From: doc <kd4e@verizon.net>
Reply-to: kd4e@verizon.net
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:22:10 -0400
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I have a pair of GINA 7000N's.  They provide wireless RS-232 plus a
wireless voice line.  Neat little gadgets.

Details here: http://www.rock2000.com/wireless/7000n.htm

They may be had for less than 1/10 of their advertised price via
surplus sources!

doc

Ian White G/GM3SEK wrote:
> I'm starting to lay out a new HF/VHF home station on a 1-acre site... 
> and can already see the numbers of 200-500ft control cables expanding 
> out-of-sight.
> 
> Obviously there is a basic minimum of links that have to be hard-wired: 
> RF signal lines, AC/DC power rails and ground bonding. But there seems 
> no reason why a lot of the simple control wires (eg antenna select and 
> direction switching) couldn't be converted into radio links.
> 
> What I had in mind is a pair of radio modems that provide "virtual 
> wires". So each modem would have a big array of terminal strips - 
> whatever goes into one terminal strip, comes out the other. (Obviously 
> there has to be a power and some jumpering at the remote end, but you 
> see the basic idea.)
> 
> Does such a product exist? I've only seen units providing say 4 relay 
> closures, which are far too few. This application really needs a minimum 
> of 16 "virtual wires", with capability to add further blocks.
> 
> 

-- 
Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e

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