[Elecraft] internet speed for remote K3S

[Barry Baines]

David:

> On Sep 1, 2018, at 3:38 PM, David Cutter via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I will soon be building a remote control station about 20miles away.  Both
> stations have access to broadband, but what speed will give satisfactory
> results?  

My experience operating remote is with a K3I/O-mini and Remote Rig interfaces.  My station is 1,250 miles from where I’m currently located. The K3 transmitter site (Southeast Georgia) is in a rural setting that uses DSL with a downlink capability of about 20 Mbps and uplink capability of about 1 Mbps (the fastest speed available for residential customers).  The control location (Boston) with the K3/IO-Mini uses Comcast/Xfinity which provides a downlink capability of 90 MBps and 6 Mbps uplink.  With this setup I have no problems using the K3/IO through the K3/IO-Mini with excellent audio and instantaneous management of the radio.  At the same, I’m using web-based interfaces (RR-1216H) to control the KPA500 amplifier and Green Heron RT-21 rotor controller.  

One of the advantages of Remote Rig is that there are various audio codec options available which can be set depending upon how much bandwidth is available.  My remote rig setup uses a relatively low audio setting (16 KHz) but the audio sounds fine to my ears and I have no problem with this setup.  I haven’t experimented with higher audio settings in part because I have other devices feeding data through that 1 MB Uplink as well.

Bottom line is that if you have true “broadband” at both locations, I wouldn’t expect any problems.


FWIW,

Barry Baines, WD4ASW
(Currently in Boston, MA)












> tnx and 73
> David G3UNA
> 
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