Re: [TenTec] Remote rig operations

["Richard Detweiler" <rdetweil@hotmail.com>]

Most kids that I get interested in the hobby never start because of the 
first response from parents, regarding an HF antenna.
"not in my back yard..."

However, useing a PC to a remote station might get some more HAM's on the 
air.
Another item,  what are we going to do when we get stuck in an old folks 
home by our kids?  ehh?
We need to look at the reasons we are allowed this hobby in the first place.

Best wishes,
Richard
K5SF


> From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net>
> Reply-To: ken.d.brown@hawaiiantel.net,Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment 
> <tentec@contesting.com>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Remote rig operations
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:17:15 -1000
>
> 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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