[Elecraft] Remote KAT500

[Ken K6MR]

A couple of possibilities:

Use a USB/Serial converter at the tuner end and employ a USB over CAT5 extender device/cable to get there. CAT5 cable is cheap. There are also RS422/RS232 converters out there. RS422 is good for about 4000 feet as I remember and the converters are not very expensive.

More expensive but more flexible is a run of duplex fiber optic cable with fiber/Ethernet converters on each end. I use this method and run the fiber in the same conduit as the coaxes between the radios and the tuners/amps. Fiber of course ensures no radiated noise. Plus if you want to control something else at the far end it’s easy to expand.

Ken K6MR


From: Va3ied
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 06:48
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Remote KAT500

My tower and garden shed are about 150 feet away. I have LMR400 buried inside
some PEX pipe. Would like to use the KAT500 inside the shed...not sure how
well a serial connection that distance would work!
scott va3ied



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