[TowerTalk] Re; Need Help Remembering Something I Read

[jimlux]

On 7/8/18 12:24 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> 
> 
> On 7/8/2018 9:23 AM, jimlux wrote:
>>
>> 1) do you have a broadband(ish) preamp (perhaps with band select 
>> filters) and bring coax back to the shack where you digitize it
>> 2) Do you put the digitizer out at the antenna, and bring the samples 
>> back by network?
>> 3) What should the digitizer look like? A Superhet or Direct 
>> Conversion/Low IF front end followed by a low speed high resolution 
>> sampler? Or a wide open sampler?
> 
> Just something else to worry about:
> 
> Buried in the boilerplate of contest rules is something to the
> effect that "antennas must be connected by wires", whatever
> that means.  Can the "wires" be CAT5 network cables?
> I guess "bring the samples back by network" excludes a wireless
> network (wi-fi, etc.)
> 


never thought about that.. would DC power wires qualify?  Do they have 
to be connected all the time (thinking about folks who game the battery 
power rules at FD, with two batteries, one running the radio, one 
sitting on the charger connected to the wall, then swapping when the 
radio battery goes dead)


You could use WiFi over Coax, too, I suppose.. At least it's still RF 
"on the wire"

> Rick N6RK