[GreenKeys] OT: remote transceiver

[Robert Nickels]

On 6/30/2020 3:13 PM, Gil Smith wrote:
>
> - some means to locate the transceiver near the antenna and control it 
> remotely.

That's the most flexible approach I think, but what you really need is a 
remote base that you can control from other locations on your LAN.    
The Raspberry Pi-based "Rig Pi" is probably the easiest way to do that, 
you'd need a Pi of course and while the software is open source, you'd 
also need some hardware since the Pi doesn't have audio inputs, and some 
Linux experience to get it all playing together.  Here's the website and 
you can get a better idea of whether this is for you from the Downloads 
page.   MFJ sells this as a product called the MFJ-1234.

There have been homebrew solutions offering similar capabilites, this 
guy's site might be of interest:

https://buildthings.wordpress.com/ham-radio-raspberry-pi-internet-remote-base-controller-server-client-serial2tcp-voip-yaesu-kenwood-rs232-icom-civ-level-converter-arduino-attiny/

The basic idea of streaming audio and sending serial data over an IP 
connection doesn't sound like rocket science but as always the devil is 
in the details.  On the other hand, I remember spending weeks building 
my first remote base controller using actual relay ladder logic, as 
microcomputers were just coming out and way too expensive for the job in 
the mid 70s.

Another approach would be to get a 2M-70CM radio that incorporates 
cross-band repeat capability.   There are some limitations, and online 
resources that will let you learn more. New radios now have built-in 
bluetooth for wireless audio, it can't be long before wi-fi remote 
capability is also standard but I'm not aware of any that are available 
today.  It will be pretty cool when you can buy a radio, tell it about 
your LAN, and then run it from anywhere.

73, Bob W9RAN