I’d love to hear more about your remote station and operations. Maybe make a video or take some photos some time! I have been known to operate my shack while I’m out, although it’s not the kind of distance you are talking about.
Eventually, we hope to come up with some nice “physical knob” options for folks that like to turn a real knob! Maybe it will be an off-the-shelf device if we find a good one.
Looking at used HF Icom prices, the IC-7300 really is in a nice spot. It’s only a bit more expensive than the IC-7100, but considerably more sophisticated! I think it’s a good spot. I still might upgrade to an IC-7610, depending upon how the finances look at the end of the year.
no the bridge was constructed using an Arduino mega 2560 with ethernet shield connected to the 7300’z Remote port via my CI-V interface ( basically TTL serial to one wire bus converter) .
Re: Physical knob - a lot of SDR users use the Shuttle Pro or Express.
My setup is pretty plain vanilla 100 watts into a vertical. I’m only CW and digital at the moment. No plans for SSB operation, though I’d like to get an IC-9700 and get back on satellites some day.
I see I have to get in touch with my host and ask him for a password to get into his router and forward some ports. I can’t get into the server with my client set up here and I’m guessing it’s those ports.
Yes I have a Shuttle Express and have already written C++ code to use it to control some other software I wrote a few years ago, so support for it may well appear in wfview. It doesn’t have the nicest ‘feel’ though and is very plasticky!
We are also looking at possibly supporting the RC-28, and I have a colleague who is experimenting with creating an RC-28 compatible device based on https://github.com/gi1mic/rc28_emulator
I had a real live need for the Wfview/remote desktop process today, and it worked.
For a few months I’ve had two annoying RFI generating power supplies in my house.
One was a PoE power supply, the other is my wife’s PC power supply.
Using the cell phone to remote to my desktop I was able to see the Wfview waterfall and actually test a few options for eliminating the noise.
For the PoE device (a security camera I had already tried 3 different power supplies so using my phone to watch the noise and make sure it didn’t return, I tried feeding the camera directly with a local power supply., It worked fine and I was able to get power within reach of the power supply.
For my wifes PC I was planning on heading to the local gadget store to buy a new one but I tested some ferrites I had laying around and it turned out that putting one on the power cord almost eliminated the noise.
Previous noise troubleshooting required me to carry an SDR and antenna attached to my phone and was not really effective.
So being able to remote in using my cell phone was really helpful in this case.
An RC-28 compatible device would be pretty nice; the Icom RC-28 is pretty expensive.
I’ve been intrigued by the Shuttle devices. A lot of SDR-Console (and I think SDR#) users use them. I’ve never owned one myself and didn’t know about the plasticky feel.
Myself, I’m pretty happy with the on-screen tuning knob you have provided, but an external control would be sweeter!
I’ve used a fairly cheap (100p/rev) rotary encoder with my icom radios, and also very cheap ( and probably not very durable ) 10p/rev devices. I’m still looking for something a little nicer, maybe optical or magnetic.
I looked on ebay for icom encoders and found a lot of part-pulls from old icom rigs. From these, I looked up the actual part numbers and found that most are “magnetic” encoders (magnetic sensors I guess) and they cost $30-50 new. Expensive suckers! But they look hefty and like they would turn slowly and smoothly.
I’d like to try one with a Pi GPIO some time. Or a microcontroller emulating a HID.