Pictures of the shack
This project is typical for me. I’m really sloppy and really fast at getting stuff running, and months later I come back around and tidy things up. Orderly engineering is not my forte. ‘Seems like as soon as I tie everything down, something breaks and I just have to rip it all open again.
Here’s a picture of the first shack. Coax cables from the antenna weren’t long enough to reach my intended destination, so the gear wound up on a table that just barely reached.
This next photo is my favorite. This was when I was in full swing, getting antennas working, figuring out connectors, working on all the interconnections between things. See why I draw those drawings? No way I could figure out what’s going on without them.
I took this last picture this morning. Tidy. Boring. Yawn…
I don’t ever actually touch the radio, since I’m an Internet-controlled radio type guy. So here’s a picture of the “real” shack — a screenshot of my laptop running TRX-Manager and talking to the radio over the ‘net.
And here’s a detail shot of what’s actually on the screen…
And finally, here’s a screenshot of the power-strip that can be controlled over the Internet — this is a shot of the little web-page that is used to control two outlets. One can power-cycle the PC that’s hosting the TRX-Manager session and the other can power-cycle the radio’s power supply.
So there you have it. The meat-space shack, and the cyber-space shack.
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007 at 12:29 pm under
totally awesome post about the remote rig. I’m planning on doing something similar. My mom lives on a hill, and has a cable-modem. I live in a place where I can’t put up a very good ant. did you look at other ways to get the audio over the net at all?
also, can you do CW keying with a paddle or straight key over the net somehow?
Mike’s reply;
Hi Mark, thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the post.
I’m a no-code Extra-class ham, since I went into brain spasms every time I tried to learn the code so I’m not going to be a lot of help here. I think keying is supported through TRX manager, but I don’t know how the paddle/key hardware is supported. However TRX Manager has a very active Yahoo list — click HERE for the list. I’m sure there have been discussions about keying and that a quick search of the list would give you some ideas.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 am