[Elecraft] K4 Remote Antenna button

[Phillip Heller]

+1 to this.

> On Nov 2, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Phil Genera <pg at fivesevenfive.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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