[Elecraft] Product suggestion - Remote Panel for the K3

[Julian, G4ILO]

Toby Deinhardt wrote:
> 
> How economically viable a remote control box may or may not be and  
> whether there are software hooks already available in the firmware,  
> which would make this doable without an exhorbitant effort, would have  
> to be judged by Elecraft.
> 

True, but it seemed a reasonable conclusion to jump to, especially when they
are under a lot of customer pressure to develop other products such as
linears.



> 1) I use WinTest as logging software, especially during contests, and  
> plan on doing so in the future. WinTest does not give you total  
> control of the radio. The K3 "only" has one serial port, which would  
> seem to preclude using a second bit of software simultaneously to  
> control the rest of the radio's functions.
> 

Wouldn't VSPE or LP-Bridge solve that problem?


2) The interface of the K3's front panel is, imho, very good the way  
it is and not easily, in similar quality, replaceable with a computer  
keyboard, screen and mouse.


I agree, it's one reason I prefer using a real radio to an SDR. Perhaps in
the future, when SDRs become more ubiquitous, someone will come up with a
generic product that will allow people to design custom hardware interfaces
to fully software defined radios. 



> 3) Encoding and decoding audio streams in a PC will, I think, cause  
> more latency than a dedicated solution ala Remoterig. Latency is going  
> to be a problem via the Internet anyhow, so anything which keeps it  
> down is good.
> 

I have no experience of Remoterig but most people seem to use Skype for
remote audio and seem happy with it. I have used the W4MQ software and Skype
to access a remote TS2000 and the audio was excellent in both directions. I
wasn't aware of significant latency.

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