[WriteLog] Remote Station Control

[Alfred J. Frugoli (KE1FO)]

Hello folks,

I've been doing some research on Remote Station Control.  I'd like to try using Writelog as a front end and using something like NetMeeting's remote Desktop Sharing or PCAnywhere to control the software and send/recieve audio over the internet.  Anyone doing this?  Here are my issues to this point.

On my local network I can't get NetMeeting's remote desktop sharing to work.  The service seems to run, but when I try to log in from another computer 1) I never am asked to enter the password and 2) the connection is rejected eventually.  I have tried connecting to the "host" (the one connected to the rigs and running writelog) machine using netmeeting and remote desktop connection - neither works.  I CAN share my desktop once a call is established in NetMeeting and control the radio etc from another machine.  

The 2nd issue is how to get the audio that is normally going to the headphones into netmetting (an aside is that NetMeeting doesn't seem to support stereo, so using this solution I'd be limited to using 1 rig while operating remotely).  I'm assuming a 2nd soundcard would be necessary - i.e. soundcard A would be connected to Writelog in the normal way except that the Mic input would come from the line out or speaker otuput of soundcard b (instead of directly from a Mic).  The headphones from the rig (or writelog so2r keyer in my case) would go to the mic in on soundcard B.  NetMeeting would use soundcard B to the audio over the internet link.

The 3rd issue is that I don't see that audio can be sent when you use remote desktop sharing.  Therefore a call would actually need to be established.  I guess this could be done using the remote desktop connection (starting netmeeting on the remote machine etc.).  

The "host" computer (one connected to rigs running writelog) is an AMD K6 with 32 megs of ram running Windows 98 4.10.1998.  The "remote" computer is a celeron 2.4mhz with 768 megs of ram running Windows XP Version 2002 Service Pack 1.

Can anyone help out with this issue?

Thanks.

73 de Al, KE1FO