[Elecraft] Questions re K3 Remote

[Dauer, Edward]

A couple of questions for anyone who might know either the answers or where I could find them . . . 

My station location is at a weekend home in a remote part of Teller County, Colorado, about 100 miles from my weekday home in the city (Denver).  Being able to operate the Teller County station from my home in Denver (where no antennas are allowed, etc.) would be the perfect hamming existence, hence the attraction of the K3 Remote.

However, the outback location is really outback - Internet is cell telephone link only so far as I know, and the contracts limit the data usage to 5 GB a month with substantial costs for overuse (there is but one carrier there with a cell tower that I can hit.)  

The station is a K3-KAT500-KPA500 (and a P3).

Two questions:

(1) Any way to estimate the data usage per hour of operation before I invest in the remote?  (I operate CW only, with heavy usage during contests.) Would the data transmission rate accommodate rapid CW QSOs in pileups etc?

(2) Would the K3 have to be operated "barefoot," and with only its internal ATU?  That is, would info about the KPA-500 and KAT-500 be available somehow, remotely?  I would have serious misgivings about trying to operate a 500-watt amp in the line without being able to meter its behavior.

Thanks for whatever guidance might be offered . . . 

Ted, KN1CBR



On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft <
eric at elecraft.com> wrote:

> We have updated the K3Remote page with the K3/0-mini. See:
> http://www.elecraft.com/K3-Remote/k3_remote.htm
>
> We are also adding more K3/0-Mini info to that page and it will be further
> updated in the next 15-30 minutes.
>
> The ordering information is located in the K3Remote and K3/0 section of
> our order page. See:
> http://www.elecraft.com/elecraft_prod_list.htm#k3remote
>
> 73,
> Eric
> elecraft.com