> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eric Hilding
> Sent: March 27, 2007 05:48
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Cc: nccc@contesting.com; writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SO2R REMOTE CONTESTING - TS-480 Issue
>
> I went to the TS-480 "Bible" (The Kenwood Manual) in this matter.
>
> Page 1 clearly shows a picture of the rig body which is
> referred to as the "transceiver" (that's what does the
> transmitting & receiving).
>
> Page 1 also clearly shows a picture of the "Remote Control
> Panel" and refers to it as this (my term has been "Control Head").
>
> So in reality, anyone operating a TS-480 in a contest with
> either the Remote Control Panel (a/k/a "Control Head") or via
> remote control software on a PC at a home QTH, is really
> operating the transceiver (a/k/a rig body) via "remote
> control". Surprise, Surprise!
>
> The only difference between remote control software and the
> Kenwood Remote Control Panel is that the one is strictly
> software (also displaying a "panel layout" on a computer
> screen), and the Kenwood unit is a screen display encased in
> its own housing that happens to have buttons and a VFO dial
> on it, and you don't need a mouse to use it.
>
> If someone hooks up a Griffin Power Knob to N4PY's software,
> TRX Manager or another remote control software program on
> their computer, they have essentially the same thing as the
> Kenwood "Remote Control Panel" absent of some other physical
> buttons to push and tiny knobs to turn vs. everything being
> displayed on a computer screen and generally requiring a the
> use of a mouse in addition to some keyboard "hot key" options.
>
> Neither the TS-480 Remote Control Panel or remote control
> software generate any RF nor receive any signals, and
> therefore can not be considered an integral part of the
> transceiver (transmitting & receiving device). The
> aforementioned are strictly "Remote Control" devices. To try
> and prove otherwise would be illogical. This is quite
> different, of course, from transceivers which are standalone
> boxes where all the operpating knobs and buttons a part of
> the physical unit which also does the transmitting and
> receiving, which accordingly must be located within the
> infamous 500m circle.
>
How do you figure this?? Basically, you are saying EXACTLY what I tried to
point out in my previous postings concerning robot operations only now, not
only do you want to divorce the operator from the "station" but the things
that make it operate as well. If you think that the remote head and remote
software are NOT integral to the operation of the station then eliminate
them and see what happens. I can take the front off of my FT-920, put it
anywhere and, as long as all those little wires are connected, use the radio
but I can't do it if I take the front controls off and throw them in a box
in the corner of the room.
73 -- Paul VO1HE
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