[TenTec] Remote rig operations

[Ken Brown]

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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