[Elecraft] Re: radios on networks

[Larry Phipps]

Available on my website. I also wrote an article in QST a couple years 
ago about it (Oct. 2005).

Larry N8LP
www.telepostinc.com


Thom LaCosta wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Larry Phipps wrote:
>
>> I like this approach for remote control because it eliminates the PC 
>> and its maintenance. There are also inexpensive devices to provide 
>> streaming VoIP over ethernet from companies like Sippura and Cisco, 
>> using "analog telephone adapters" aimed at the Vonage type internet 
>> phone market. This allows a remote setup with just a router and 
>> broadband modem of some sort. The rig, rotator and other equipment 
>> appear as remote "virtual" com ports over the internet.
>
> As someone who knows nothing about the stuff you've mentioned, and 
> therefore even less about remote control, it strikes me that a How To 
> could be of great benefit to those of us that are faced with the 
> serial radio and the USB ported computer.  My experience with the USB 
> to anything converters, dongles, prayer wheels and incense burners has 
> been less than satisfactory.
>
> I would be grateful to read more about it, as it may give me yet 
> another tool in the fight against technology.
>
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