[Elecraft] K3/0

[Bill K9YEQ]

Alan,

I have a HAM friend who has moved into assisted living.  He cannot install
and outdoor antenna at his location.  He would be well served with a remote
setup.  I can think of countless HAMs who are in the same predicament.  Thus
the need for the K3/0.  I would like this setup as well for myself.  I want
to set it up to operate from anywhere in the house or when travelling to
communicate through the home station and have a separate device attached to
a PC so both can be used at the same time.  To occupy a PC totally with a
radio, but having a separate "rig" attached to leave the desktop for other
use is what I would prefer.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Alan Bloom
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 3:57 PM
To: Joe Subich, W4TV
Cc: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3/0

I have a ham friend who lives in a studio apartment on the 13th floor.
If he had a balcony he could attach a whip to the railing, but ND.  It's a
steel-frame building so indoor antennas are pretty useless.  For someone
like him I think a remote station would be a godsend.

Some years ago, a local ham here in Santa Rosa who lived in a condo
installed his ancient, rack-mounted Collins crystal-controlled CW
transmitter at my QTH, connected to a dipole well up in the air.  The
control unit had a touch-tone decoder so he could access it via telephone,
key the rig, and select one of two crystals.  40 meters only.
But it allowed him to get on the air with a decent signal using a receiver
and random wire antenna located at his condo.  Full break in too!

Alan N1AL


On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:09 -0500, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> 
>  > I have thought for many years that it would be a great feature if a  
> > radio club could set up a super station and offer remote access to 
> its  > apartment-bound members.
> 
> I keep hearing this - and the "HOA limitation" - as justification for 
> remote operation.  As far as I'm concerned both just don't "pass the 
> smell test."


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