[PVRCNC] Yaesu and remote rig

[Ted]

Thanks to w4aaw and N4ydu for their assistance over the past few weeks.

I now can successfully remote-control my Riner, Va station with the ftdx5k, and can now travel to anywhere there is internet to get on the air.

I'm using a pair of the Remote Rig boxes made by Microbit, and these make a "transparent" addressable connection with 3 different ports for station control. I am amazed at the quality email support provided by the owner, Mikael. I have yet to make my first contact remotely, but I can hear myself on 80m at my raleigh station when accessing  the Riner station remotely. Cool!

It was a fairly steep learning curve to get all of this working, and there are still some tweaks to get the basic operation working 100%, but it was accomplished in a compressed time frame, thanks to really good support from the above named. It's nice to have Mike W4aaw, a true pioneer or remoting, in the club.

I suspect this will now lead to many more pathways, and further learning and improvements over time, since there is much more that can be done.

73, ted N9NB

Sent from smartphone, please excuse typos

> On Jul 27, 2018, at 6:52 PM, Ted <tsrwvcomm at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello fellow pvrc'ers:
> 
> Has anyone used any freeware to remote control the yaesu ftdx5k using the remote rig hardware? What do people recommend as accurate, and fast and easy to set up with a pc?
> 
> I have the 2 remote rig boxes working now, where one yaesu ftdx5k directly controls a second ftdx5k over the Internet,  so I'm "this close" to being able to remote a ftdx5k from anywhere using a pc! 
> 
> I just purchased  a USB to rs-232 db9 male cable atBest Buy for my traveling PC, and my very last step is to make the traveling pc talk through a yaesu pc program through the rs-232 to the "traveling" remote rig box.
> 
> I would welcome any tips or experience anyone has  with doing this. I tried the yaesu freewear software that comes ready to use with the ftdx5k, but could not get that software to "open" any ports on my pc.
> 
> Thanks es 73,
> Ted N9NB_._,_._,_