[Elecraft] K4 Remote Antenna button

[Phil Genera]

I have neither a K4 nor a loop controller from Loftur[0], but my dream is
adding an ethernet interface to the latter and controlling it from the
former.

[0]
https://sites.google.com/site/lofturj/to-automatically-tune-a-magnetic-loop-antenna

-- 
Phil


On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 11:20 AM Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 2, 2020, at 7:51 AM, Jim Miller <jim at jtmiller.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is mentioned in the online manual. However there's no suggestion as
> to
> > how it would interact with an external device. Obviously some code inside
> > the K4 would need to do some signalling, perhaps written by an approved
> ISV.
> >
> > How would it physically transmit commands? USB, Ethernet?
>
>
> USB, Ethernet, or RS232. There's no limit on how this could be done, but
> it hasn't been added yet. Do you have a particular antenna switch or other
> device in mind? It could also be a rotator, etc.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
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