[TowerTalk] Feeding single band HF yagis 500+ ft from the shack

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

I'm well aware of the latency consideration you raise, Jim, but many 
remote contest ops seem to have managed them satisfactorily.  I've been 
to W3LPL many times, and if his house were 600 feet from his tower field 
rather than right next door, and if the station had been designed this 
year instead of 20-odd years ago, I can well imagine him looking at the 
"shack in the tower field" option.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/18/2022 3:16 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 5/18/2022 11:45 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>> There are wifi extenders on the market that certainly could reach 
>> that far, and it wouldn't take many copper runs for RF, rotators and 
>> other control circuits to far exceed the cost.
>
> Any A/D and D/A adds latency -- no problem for control functions, but 
> not great for audio, CW, and RF. But RF can use relatively lossy coax.
>
> Also, the original post in this thread said "towers" (plural). You're 
> probably familiar with W3LPL, and there are a fair number of stations 
> like that with towers spread out over a lot of real estate. Others I'm 
> familiar with are W6YX, N6RO, W7RN, and K3LR.
>
> Every station can benefit from a SYSTEMS approach to its design. And I 
> suspect that designers of these stations might take somewhat different 
> approaches if starting from scratch today than they did 20-30 years 
> ago, as you and Grant have suggested.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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