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.
>
>
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Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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