K-line Remote Ops Hi, all concerned:
Remote operation (RO) of an ELECRAFT-line station has become my means of escaping the challenge of omnipresent HF noise at my urban home location. However, RO has presented its own peculiar set of adversities. In my case, the control location (CL) is at my home, and the radio location (RL) is at the remote site, and the sites are separated by a 20-25 mile non-line-of-sight path. The internet connection I am using between CL and RL is managed by REMOTERIG 1258 equipments at both ends of the path. The ISPs involved at the CL are Cincinnati Bell Telephone (mainly fiberoptic) and SPECTRUM (mainly cable), and SPECTRUM-only at the RL. Both ISPs seem to have the same problem: remote ops go well for random lengths of time, and then the connection suddenly "drops out". The evolving workaround is, after, say, calling CQ, and tuning in an answer properly, and turning the control off and on to store the proper tuning parameters in case of a dropout, to warn my (mostly CW) contacts of the possibity of a dropout, and, if one occurs, please QRX while I "reset the system". "Resetting the system" consists of turning off the control (K3 or the K3/0 MINI at the CL), waiting some few seconds until the control "beeps", then turning the control back on to see if the system has reset (resumed comms); if it hasn't reset, turning the control off again (and waiting for the beep) and then back on and repeating until the system resumes comms. Lately, it has been taking from 2 to 6 repeats to get the system operating after a dropout. I'm gonna wear out the power switch. Resetting the REMOTERIGs does not appear to cause, help, or otherwise affect the reset process. There are other issues, such as whether REMOTERIG implements all or a select subset of the K3 functions. They can wait. ----- Brgds, Dave, N3HE Cincinnati OH -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ ______________________________________________________________ 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
