1	KØAIZ: Internet Remote Base Station Art Zygielbaum February 8, 2006
2	Background We’re going to talk about remote control I’ve been a ham since 1961. Some of you remember. Hollow-state devices. 800 volts on a “plate cap.” Electrolytic capacitors – war surplus. Itsy-bitsy spider My first (power) remote Chief engineer of channel 2 in LA – KWM-2 mountain-top remote
3	QST – 1991 (November)
4	Late 80’s - My first real remote… Can’t find any pictures! Commodore 64 computer, “Com Shack” control board, ICOM IC-725 and an ICOM IC-24AT Illegal – uplink on 440, downlink on 2 meters – don’t tell anyone. “So how far can you get on that thing?”
5	A Mobile Remote? Problem: Fit an HF remote into a Land Cruiser. Solution: Put the radio in the back and use a palm-top computer to control it. Article by me in July 1997 QST “Computer Control for Mobile Ham Radio Operation”
6	Article Cover
7	Land Cruiser Installation
8	Mobile Screen
9	Remote by Wire – Early 90’s
10	Screen Shot
11	Enter the Internet….
12	But wait! ….before going further – Legally speaking, what’s a remote? Ain’t no such thing in the rules – Part 97! But… Example 1: Control an HF station and send and receive audio from your HT. That falls under both rule 97.213 (telecommand) and under 97.201 (auxiliary station). Example 2: Control an HF station via telephone, direct-wire, direct fiber, or the Internet. That’s “Telecommand of an amateur radio station.” FCC rule 97.213 . . .
13	Auxiliary station - Auxiliary station. An amateur station, other than in a message forwarding system, that is transmitting communications point-to-point within a system of cooperating amateur stations. Rule 97.201 – Technician class or above operator Station is limited to the class of the operator of the station Must transmit 1.25m band or above (with some frequencies excluded) May be automatically controlled May transmit one-way communications
14	Requirements for Telecommand – 97.213 Radio or wireline (including fiber) control link If by radio, must use auxiliary station If there is a malfunction in the control link, transmissions must cease within 3 minutes Station must be protected against making, willfully or negligently, unauthorized transmissions.
15	The FCC doesn’t care…. Whether your “wireline” remote control link is via a telephone, two cans and a string, or the Internet. They only care about what is on the air!
16	The KØAIZ Internet Remote Radio – ICOM IC-746 Pro Antenna – 3-element SteppIR Rotator – Yaesu G-800DXA Rotator controller – EA4TX Tower – 55’ USTower telescoping mast Computer – eMachines something or other
17	K0AIZ Shack
18	K0AIZ Steppir
19	Steppir Brochure
20	The physical elements of the remote
21	The software elements
22	And the audio….
23	Power Control
24	Demo Time
25	KØAIZ Remote – URLs to look at: www.ctwsoft.com/remote (will be up this weekend) – this presentation and articles www.w4mq.com – publicly available Internet HF remote www.arrl.org – search “remote” www.skype.com – voice over IP www.ea4tx.com – rotator controllers www.hb9drv.ch – Ham Radio Deluxe www.steppir.com – SteppIR antennas http://www.telepostinc.com – N8LP – lots of software for Internet remote control. Steppir control programs, too. More info: contact Art, KØAIZ, aiz@ctwsoft.com