[TowerTalk] rohn 45G

[Tim Makins, EI8IC]

Do you guys across the pond get the BBC World tv channel on satellite ? If
so, check out this program - the opposite in technology:
Sunday:21:30GMT

Rough Science - Time and Transmitters
 Kate Humble and the hands-on science team find they have to borrow some
wartime tricks when challenged with building a transmitter and radio in just
three days - but will they be able to communicate across their tropical
island base?
73s Tim EI8IC
www.qsl.net/ei8ic
Home of the Global Overlay Mapper
Read the review in this month's QST

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
> ....<snip>...
> The latest issue of QST has a "wireless" key for CW (Hmm.. is this a "RF
> control link?".. well, it's above 220MHz).  Why not remote the rig to the
> antenna, and use a wireless LAN to talk to it and control it? So much for
> running miles of coax.  You could do this today with a TenTec Pegasus and
> some off the shelf networking hardware. Heck, you could put the Pegasus, a
> SteppIR controller, and everything else, in a box up on the top of the
> tower, and run only AC power up the tower, then sit anywhere in your house
> with a laptop and a 802.11 card.. (or a Palm , Treo, or Pocket PC)
>
> Let's use all that cool stuff available!
>
> Jim, W6RMK