Résumé

I am presently experimenting with a remotely operated radio facility. My intention is to take advantage of the location of our holiday shack on the river Murray to setup a remotely operated radio. This should provide the benefits of a low RF noise floor and will assist in operating at full power with minimal potential for RFI for other spectrum users.

I am using RemoteRig (www.remoterig.com) and the 'engine' of the remote radio setup. RemoteRig has the advantage of not requiring the use of a computer at other the radio end (at the holiday shack) or the control end (at my home). The key requirement is a stable internet connection at each end and a suitable radio. I am using at Kenwood TS480SAT as my radio solution. The TS480 interfaces very well the the RemoteRig and only requires a couple of RJ15 cables to me made. The TS480 control head had a relatively large display and incorporates a speaker. The RemoteRig firmware is configured by using an internal web based software. Once configured the two Remote Rig units communicate via the internet using the www.dyndns.com service to allow the radio unit to be located as I do not have a static IP address. The Router must be configured to forward the appropriate ports to the radio. My connection is relatively slow (1024/256 Kbs) but despite this I have received good audio reports to date. The bandwidth demands is approximately 1Gb per day if the radio was connected continuously.