[Elecraft] Product suggestion - Remote Panel for the K3

[dj7mgq at muenchen-mail.de]

Hi,

as a cliff dweller in a large German city, with no chance of putting  
up my own antennas, according to the landlord, I am looking into  
possibilities of setting up a remote controlled station via the  
Internet using my K3.

Unfortunately, the front panel of the K3 is not easily detachable.

I would like to suggest that Elecraft might want look in to the  
feasibility of offering a remoting box for the K3 with a K3 like front  
panel, which (together with interface equipment such as the Remoterig  
RRC-1258MkII) would offer complete, low latency control of the K3.  
Possibly such a box could also offer optional control of rotors,  
transverters, antenna switching, PAs, etc.

I know at least one one OM, a contester, here in DL, who is using the  
RRC-1258MkII hardware the together with the detachable front of the  
Kenwood TS-480 via the Internet (ADSL) to control his day to day  
station. I haven't tried it out yet, but his experience appears to be  
surprisingly positive. The separate front panel is a really neat  
solution for this type of usage. Afaik, Remoterig uses a hardware  
codec, offering very low audio latency and a network latency jitter  
correction for CW keying. I don't know how well know the remote  
control system RRC-1258MkII is in the States, but there is a lot of  
information here <http://www.remoterig.com/>.


vy 73 de toby, DD5FZ


Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with Remoterig and have no personal  
experience with it as of now.