Yesterday I finally made some QSO's remotely on my Flex 5000 via my iPad. I had installed on my iPad,
1. LogMeIn Ignition to control my Flex Computer and 2. Skype to send and receive Audio On the Flex Computer, I installed 1. LogMeIn, - to control the computer screen remotely 2. Skype, - to send and receive audio 3. DDUTIL, - a control program that connects my SteppIR MonstIR, Rotor, PW1, WN2 Power Meters to the Flex 4. Virtual Audio Cable, - instead of physical connections all Audio is inside the computer as digital bits, and 5. PowerSDR. - the Flex control program We were operating from Rob's WA3IHV house in Escondido, CA on 14,172 using his legacy of the 20th Century IC-7700 Radio. I connected to my home station in La Jolla, CA about 25 miles away over my iPad via Rob's WiFi Network. While my home network has a download Speed of 20Mb/s and upload speed of 2Mb/s I did not check Rob's network speed. Remotely I automatically tuned the SteppIR to 14172 and rotated the beam north using DDUTIL Rob gave a call and we heard him distinctly at about S6. I then gave a call into my iPad and we heard me at S6 at Rob's There was a definitely Internet Delay of about ½ second... so it sounded like an echo chamber at Rob's albeit it would be OK if we were not listening to ourselves. It would be too long a delay for CW Contesting but adequate for Digital and SSB. I then went to Costco in Poway, CA using the 3G feature while sitting on a bench in the parking lot. I remotely turned the radio to 14243 in the hope of working Pat W6D on his DXpedition to Dayton No luck with Pat but I was able to make a QSO even using the slower 3G. The trick was once I tuned the radio to the frequency, I freed up bandwidth by only using Skype and not LogMeIn as I did not need to see the band then. The exciting thing for me is that I can travel to Dayton or to Europe or sit in my living room, only need to carry my iPad and yet not miss out on any DX from my house. HOWEVER... I cannot seem to get the VOX to activate PTT under Skype. I can transmit OK using MOX but I cannot seem to be able to make the VOX activate under Skype Since I am sure someone has already made this work OK, What AM I MISSING? I would like to fix this before I fly to Dayton on Thursday albeit with LogMeIn I can change the Flex Remotely. __________________________________________________________ Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA Website: www.ky6la.com<http://www.ky6la.com/> "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" "Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 & 2007 San Diego Fires, 911" _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
