I have a ham friend who lives in a studio apartment on the 13th floor. If he had a balcony he could attach a whip to the railing, but ND. It's a steel-frame building so indoor antennas are pretty useless. For someone like him I think a remote station would be a godsend.
Some years ago, a local ham here in Santa Rosa who lived in a condo installed his ancient, rack-mounted Collins crystal-controlled CW transmitter at my QTH, connected to a dipole well up in the air. The control unit had a touch-tone decoder so he could access it via telephone, key the rig, and select one of two crystals. 40 meters only. But it allowed him to get on the air with a decent signal using a receiver and random wire antenna located at his condo. Full break in too! Alan N1AL On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 16:09 -0500, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > > > I have thought for many years that it would be a great feature if a > > radio club could set up a super station and offer remote access to its > > apartment-bound members. > > I keep hearing this - and the "HOA limitation" - as justification for > remote operation. As far as I'm concerned both just don't "pass the > smell test." ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
