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I'm your host, Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. Thanks for
tuning in to this episode of HamTalk Live. Tonight
we'll be joined by Marty Sulaway, KC1CWF to take
your questions about remote operations and we'll
take your calls live in just a few minutes. Last
week Lou Malchik into our queue was here to talk
about how you can participate in School Club
Roundup whether you're just an operator or if
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or YouTube so I do want to remind you since Lou
was on last week talking about the School Club
roundup. It's almost here schools will be on
all next week that starts Monday at 1300 UTC
and goes until Friday at 2359 So please get on
the air if you can and give some schools a call
the exchange is just the RST state or DXCC entity
if you're not in the US or Canada and The class
and the class is either individual club or school.
So for example, if you're just an individual
operator you'd send like five nine, Indiana individual
and That's it. So that's of course if you live
in Indiana and it's actually a five nine, although
it's Always a 5 -9, right? Well anyway, most
schools will be on somewhere between 14 -250
and 14 -280 and 7 .225 to 7 .255 and probably
some PSK on 20 and 40 meters. So check those
areas for schools and then some other schools
will be running other modes, APRS, CW, who knows?
But some won't be able to operate in those recommended
frequencies but that's a good place to start
and you can also check the spots like the X Summit
for the location of some schools on the air and
if you are a school be sure to check out the
ARRL website for all the rules information and
try to get in on on the air Sometime next week
now Marty you've run a little bit of school club
roundup. What's your your impression here? You
know, I I've actually had the privilege to kind
of do school club roundup in I guess kind of
the three big Ways you could do it, you know,
you could be a single operator You could be operating
a school station or you could be just operating
a club station. Those are the I believe the three
big categories and I've actually operated all
three and It's a lot of fun. It's a great chance
to get on the air and talk to other kids. Obviously,
I'm a teenager. I'm 14. And although there's
plenty of children on HF, teenagers, young adults,
being able to, you know, contest to some extent
together with people your age is a lot of fun.
And I'd encourage everybody to get on. Even if
you're just like a club station, I've been...
known to get on with a club call sign and actually
hand out the club designator in my exchange.
And a lot of people think I'm a school club and
you can actually get some nice pileups. You'd
be surprised. Although a lot of people don't
think so, there's high QSL count hours rates
to be had. It's a really fun event. It's great
that the AWRL puts it on. Yeah, and that's also
sponsored by Lymark, and I hope to be on I've
fought all week Murphy has moved into school
Everything we've gone to do has just gone wrong,
but tomorrow The tower climbers coming back,
so we'll hopefully have an antenna back on and
and have everything ready to go for next week
Well, Marty's going to be back and he's going
to talk about remote operations. So if you have
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Marty Sulaway KC one C W F or as we know him
best chicken with fries is 14 years old. He became
a ham at age 12 in November of 2014. Four months
later, he upgraded to general and now has his
extra. Marty enjoys tinkering, rag chewing and
contesting. He likes building his antennas and
likes to help people get on HF and mentor new
hams. Marty is the current and founding president
of the Eastern Massachusetts Contesting Club.
The club's goal is to promote radio sport contesting
among kids in Eastern Massachusetts. And Marty
spoke at the Dayton Hamvention Youth Forum last
year and often contributes to various ham radio
podcasts so marty officially welcome to ham talk
live thanks neil it's great to be here i've known
you for a while and it's it's an honor to be
on your show yeah it's been nice to have you
on here so so first of all you know the the the
phonetics for your call kc1cwf you use the chicken
with fries thing so so i gotta ask you just just
the first off Before we get started on this remote
ops thing, who has the best chicken with fries?
You know, there's only one place you can get
amazing chicken with fries. And that is my house.
My, my, my parents make the best chicken with
fries. You gotta plug my mom. So, so, so is mom
going to invite me over if I go to Boston? Ship
up to Boston and we will figure that out. And
we'll figure that out. Okay. So, so, so no KFC
versus Chick -fil -A or no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, We may
hear from the chicken every once in a while Throughout
the show. So yeah, there we go. All right, okay
enough of the Chocularity Tell me about remotes.
Okay, what hardware and software do you need
if you want to start and Set up your own remote
station That is a loaded question my friend isn't
it? Yes. So I guess the first thing, the first
thing to kind of put a disclaimer in front of
this all is there's a thousand different ways
you can remote your station. Primarily tonight
I'm talking about, where most of my experience
comes from is operating stations on the HF bands.
And I think before you can even say what hardware
do I need, what software I need, you really need
to say what do I want to do with this remote
station. Do I want to be set up to do full, high
-power, SO2R remote contesting, single opt two
radios? Do I want to just be able to play on
PSK on 20 meters, low power? I don't want to
do CW or phone. Maybe I only have one antenna.
You know, there's a lot of different levels of
complexity. And it's also a lot about how much
do you want to spend? And I'll tell you, for
the longest time, over a year actually, my remote
station cost me probably about $40, and I'll
explain how I did that in a second. But I think
that the first question is, how much do you want
to spend? What do you already own? Because depending
on what you own, there's a number of routes you
can go. And also, why? Am I buying this to goof
off? Am I buying? It's really... How much money
am I? You get what you pay for, kind of, with
remotes. So, I guess what I'd call the free route,
although it isn't really free, what I did for
the longest time is I just had my radio with
the logging software open and I had rig control
connected up so, you know, you can change the
frequency and whatnot. And then I just used Skype,
like I'm talking to you on right now, to handle
the sideband audio. And I used Vox on the radio,
so when my audio came from the other side on
Skype, it would key up the radio. And I'd use
a piece of software called TeamViewer. TeamViewer,
which is remote desktop software. It allows me
to see a desktop somewhere else in the world
to connect up to my computer to control the rig
control and initiate the Skype calls and whatnot.
And then I just bought a cheap relay board off
of eBay. You can find them... online. I used
one by a company called SaneSmart. And I just,
I had a remote coax switch sitting around, so
I hooked that up to a bunch of relays, and I
just switched 12 volts to turn on, to switch
to each antenna. And you know, I found a board
on the internet, wrote a little bit of code,
I used Python. And if anybody wants any of this
software stuff, all these boards are cheap, you
know, 30 bucks. If you want software to go with
it, shoot me an email. uh, KC1CWF at KC1CWF .us.
That's where, uh, you find, uh, my contact. Uh,
that's my email. Um, that's just one way out.
You can do it, but there's a thousand ways. I
guess this is kind of a long answer, but, um...
Yeah. So, so that, that's the, the, the DIY round.
That's the cheap way. Oh, yes. But you don't,
you know, I'm cheap, but you don't have to be
cheap. Right. So let's, so let's talk a minute
about the other way around. What? Shall we talk
about the very high end? Plug and play. Plug
and play. Plug and play. Well, plug and play
is going to cost you some money. But I guess,
well, how about there's no plug, it's just play.
If you want to play, you don't even care about
who's station you're using. You can browse over
to remotehamradio .com, which is a play -to -pay
website run by W2RE and WW2DX from Hamza, New
York. you pay $99 a year at their base price
and then around 50 cents a minute and They have
like 20 stations all over the US and it's first
come first serve it's just an internet client
and you can Control stations CW phone, you know
you can do it all that's the play if you that's
just the pay and you play There's no plug. Just
just play if you want to say set up your own
Station at home. I think the top -of -the -line
product is probably the Ella craft you got the
Ella craft system Which is you buy an Ella craft
k3. It's a high quality contest radio typically
and then Ella craft sells another radio called
the Ella craft k3 zero mini Which is basically
the front panel of an Ella craft k3 So it's the
same. It's this it looks identical. There's just
no RF deck Then there's a company called remote
rig which sells or what's actually sold by Ellicraft
that sells up two boxes and you just plug an
Ethernet cable into one side of the box and you
plug Your radio into the other side of the box
and that sits at your home station And then you
have this little other remote remote box that
looks identical that plugs into that k30 mini
Anywhere in the world and you have the front
panel of your radio just like you're sitting
in front of your radio You'd never know your
remote. That's probably the high -end, but that'll
set you back a few thousand bucks And that just
takes care of rig control. You know still rotate
your rotors and switch your antennas And that
you know there's pre -made products to that green
Henry and engineering make some stuff to do that
There's there's a thousand ways to go, but I'd
probably classify that as the high -end Okay,
so let's let's go for the middle. Let's go something
that I want it Do this at my home station, so
I'm not just gonna rent time on somebody else's
but You know I just want to go kind of plug and
play but use the rig I've already got Well, it
depends what sort of radio you have say you have
an icon radio icon makes a piece of software
called RSBA 1 RSBA 1 I'm actually using it right
now for my remote $99 You just run the software
on a computer at home that's plugged into your
radio. It'll take care of all the radio communication,
all the audio passed through. And if you have
a fancy newer radio that has the spectrum scope
built into an ICOM radio, it'll even pass that
over the remote. That's probably the high level,
entry level. You can even get like a knob that'll
plug in on your remote computer so you can feel
like you're spinning the VFO. That's for ICOM.
There's a piece of software called Remote Hams
that can kind of do something similar also. And
that piece of software, A, is remote control
software. You run a server at your shack and
then you run a client in the field on another
computer that you want to control your home radio
with. The the yellow craft solution does not
require a computer all these other ones do And
and with that you can you can remote your Remote
your station, but all actually remote hams has
a network of remote stations although all over
the world You can actually ask to use other people's
stations, which is kind of cool Murphy's been
following me all week. I mean, oh, yes We got
the we got the stepper back from Being rebuilt
and you didn't even we got it. Yeah, and we got
we didn't break it we got it all put back together
and then The rotor would only turn right and
wouldn't turn left brand -new rotor out of the
box So I had to send that back. So then the tower
climber comes up the mass pipe won't fit And
so now we got a change or tower configuration
around and it's like everything. And of course
it's the week before school club roundup. And
so, yeah, so everything that I've gone to do,
everything that I've gone to do in the last week.
Murphy's been there. Murphy's been there. He's
following me. So what comes to remotes too? Yes
What happens when Murphy shows up to remotes
and something goes wrong and you're not there?
The best thing to do if you're using say computer
software make sure while your computer set up
to Power off on a power on after the loss of
power That's one thing you can buy remotely controlled
power, power, power, what's the word, surge protectors,
the IP surge protectors that you can power cycle
over the internet, to power cycle all your gear.
We're not even talking about amplifiers yet,
that's a whole other subject. That's one thing
to do. We've had RFI issues where I have a friend,
K2LE, who lives in New York City and has a remote
station in Vermont, and oh, there's plenty of
times when you're setting up a big remote station,
you will have to drive there. And that's just
kind of a reality until you get the bugs out.
But being able to power cycle everything helps.
You got to work out the bugs. Yeah, I think I
could even use that at the repeater site because
occasionally we got to power cycle some stuff
there. So how do you count something during a
contest or for some award, like maybe it's worked
all states or something? The XCC. How do you
count that if you log into somebody's remote
station out in Arizona? Do you count it as if
you're in Arizona? Do you count it as if you're
in Boston? How do you count that in a contest?
So here's the one thing about remote operation.
It is great and it can be used so ethically.
And there's a lot of people who don't use remote
stations who believe there's no way to use them
ethically. As kind of something that's new and
upcoming to Ham Radio, it's our responsibility
to make sure we're using them as ethically as
possible. Not to, you know, kind of send other
people away from remote operation. So yes, you
always have to be ethical. If I'm using a station
in California, I'll make sure I'm KC1CWF slash
6, for example. Always say yes, I'm actually
in California. For awards, I always keep that
stuff separate. There's been a lot of stuff recently
as far as people using remote stations as ears
around the world. Maybe you're loud on 160, but
you can't hear for anything. Maybe you'll just,
you know, you think it's okay to tune on to some
quiet site somewhere else in the world, even
though you're transmitting from home. If it wasn't
2A, you didn't make the cue. And I'd argue that
is unethical. So be ethical about your operation,
because it's very important to do that. There's
a lot of people watching you and scrutinizing
you. And as a hobby, we really have to self -regulate.
So it's very important to operate your station
ethically. OK. So you're going to count it as
the location of the transmitter. That's where
you're gonna count. Yes. Yes, you always count
the location of the transmitter But you should
be receiving at the same place. You're transmitted.
That's true sure Same thing goes for DXC credit
if you're within whatever the rules say whatever
even if you're remote if you're within the radius
That's acceptable. It's acceptable. If you're
not it's not it's pretty simple All right, very
good. Well, we've got that that cleared up. Well
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Think I hear that the chicken again. I think
I hear that Marty Yeah, yeah, I think it's there
so chicken with fries is here give him a call
812 net ham one is the number so so while we're
waiting there's some stations that um do rent
out time on the remotes how how do they do that
and and and what's the what's the best way to
uh to make sure you're you're getting the one
that's uh That's not trying to rip you off Well,
I haven't actually heard of anybody getting ripped
off by Hams in the u .s. And Europe you know
there's some other things going on with their
modes, but I think mainly focusing on the u .s.
I think it's you know find a station Maybe find
a cluster of stations. That's the great thing
about remote ham radio comm they have stations
all over the world for like a thousand bucks
a year you can like use that you Amazing stuff
actually they have a station in Haiti hotel hotel
to alpha alpha. I checked that out Oh, and if
you're a kid if you're a teen remote ham radio
has a program where you can actually apply to
Get used to their stations for a year if so you
can't you got a lot of noise or you're an HOA
That's pretty cool. There's some people that
will just sell you their stations. I know one
For a few hundred dollars a year, you can have
access to W7RN in Nevada. Get this. They have
an 80 meter beam. An 80 meter beam? 80 meter
beam. Wow. At one point in time, they had stacked
80 meter beams. The whole tower rotates. Imagine
that. Yeah, you have to have a rotating tower
for that kind of load. Wow, that's huge. You
know, for only a few hundred dollars a year,
you can access the station. I believe that station,
I believe they have a five -stack of 20 -meter
Yagis, seven -element Yagis, something like that.
It's incredible stuff. What else? There's a lot
of stations around the US. It's new technology.
People are just figuring it out. But this is
actually really a great time, I think, if you
just want to get going. Obviously, as your station
gets bigger, there's more cost involved. Remoting
things like amplifiers and rotating towers and
stack matches or big stacks, that can get complex
and complicated. And it's really, you can be
an engineer to do this sort of stuff. It's not
easy. Now I didn't this is this is unscripted
here by the way I didn't didn't mention this
but one of the things that we've Caught on to
after going to contest University and kind of
figuring out a few things is a Lot of times we'll
do web SDR and just kind of listen to make sure
we're getting out So we're not remote transmitting
But we'll remote receive just to just to see
if we're getting a signal into that part of the
country and and that's and that's free Yeah,
that's a good way to check propagation. But remember
you can use that to check propagation, but I'd
be careful I wouldn't be using that to pull weak
call signs out of the model. Oh sure sure sure
So yeah Um, anything else on the ethics front
you wanted to, uh, to talk about because that's,
you know, there's a whole new thing. Yeah. And
I think it's as more people get on remote, there's
going to be more and more, you know, ethical
standards set, but the important thing is play
by the rules. Um, typically, you know, if you're,
if you're reading the rules, most contests, um,
don't have any special remote categories. There's
no need for that. Just think about you know what
on your two meter radio You have maybe you have
a separated front plate You know imagine yours
using a long cord to get to your front plate
be it over the internet or not and If you had
an extended front plate in your radio was in
California And you were keying up the repeater
in California, and you were sitting in New England
you wouldn't say oh There's some magical two
meter opening. I'm magically getting into this
repeater in California, so see you know same
thing operate ethically don't lie follow the
rules it's pretty simple 812 net ham one is the
phone number for marty kc1 chicken with fries
talking about remote operations tonight 812 net
ham one or you can tweet us at ham talk live
now While again while we're waiting here if if
somebody has a question, please chime in but
This is especially like the amplifiers and the
rotating towers and everything this is putting
some of your equipment at risk, so What are what
are the risks of like, you know, you overdrive
the amp and you know, there's Nobody there to
do that or you know, I don't I don't think there's
any more risk in over driving your amp remotely
There is at home, but there's nobody there to
watch it if it's yours Well, typically you'll
have remote metering so you can see how much
power you're driving over the remote I mean,
you're probably using some sort of automatic
tune amplifier, or maybe an amplifier for each
band of your remote, so you can change bands,
and typically those things have some sort of
protection in them, so that often saves you some
trouble. And the antennas, if the antenna falls
down and they keep turning it? If the antenna,
say that again? If the antenna falls down, but
they keep turning it. So you're saying like the
antenna falls off the tower, right? And the rotator
keeps spinning and they keep yeah, they keep
turning the rotator Well, couldn't that happen
at home too? Well, yeah, it could happen at home,
but then you'd notice it. Can you see? Maybe
you could put a webcam up. Yeah, we do that at
a lot of stations We put up webcams looking at
the front panels of radios and out the window,
but I think that's just as Applicable in real
life. If you look at most contest stations, you
cannot see the towers from the operating chair
I know I can't see my antennas from my chair
Well, yeah, but I mean they're they're close
by so but I wouldn't know anymore if I was remote
or if I was in the basement, you know Yeah, so
so for example, I know somebody who? Who has
a remote station here in Indiana? Yep, but lives
out on the West Coast And so it's not like he
can just, you know, drive down the street and
drive on over if something, if something happens.
So, so I'm just wondering what kinds of safeguards
and you're mentioning some of these, what kind
of safeguards can you do to make sure that things
are rotators? Oftentimes things like automatic
band switching on your antennas, you're always
transmitting it to the right antenna. Things
like that, but you know I think rotator stops
you'd have anyways It's common sense operation
anything physical things will fail you can only
build your antenna so tough something will eventually
break Just like they would at home, and you will
have to deal with that. That's the reality 812
net ham one is the phone number eight one two
six three eight four two six one if you have
Some questions about remote operation was with
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So, so you're doing this from your remote all
over the world. What? Yeah. So, so what, so what
do you like now that you've got the the ICOM
7300 and you've got that ability to do the ICOM
software and remote that and then you've got
the stuff that you put together and and you you
know design yourself right so what do you like
about your setup and then what do you like about
the the ICOM thing Well, the ICOM setup is my
main setup right now. And to be honest, it works
great. Audio is crystal clear. There's very little
latency. You know, I can use a remote knob if
I wanted to. And it's lightweight. You know,
the positive and the negative of the Ellicraft
system, which is kind of probably the most popular
for high -end remotes, you know, that's what
W7RN uses, for example. You have to carry it
somewhere. If you're already bringing your laptop,
you can just fire up the ICOM software and off
you go That's that's the plus yeah, I mean that
sounds like a An easy way to get the job done
and then you know for I don't use the ICOM software
when I'm doing things like PSK I'll just run
FL digi over the remote and you'd never know
what's remote because you're just screen sharing,
you know No different than you'd be if you're
sitting in front of the radio clicking buds on
a computer screen now is there anything in your
Your cheap homemade setup That you've been able
to do yourself that You can't do on one of these
High package software. Yeah No, but I you know
as you automate your station more and more you
lose a little bit of manual control that's nice
to have for example um maybe i want to you know
as i'm i want to listen i i don't have a i don't
ever receive an antenna port on my radio something
happens with lower cost radios but maybe i want
to switch back and forth while i'm receiving
after my cq is between a 80 meter vertical which
is quieter than say my 40 meter vertical on 80
meters You have that control with a manual setup
that you programmed yourself as opposed to something
that's maybe more automated. All this can be
set up, it's just a matter of complexity. What
you pay for is what you get, I think, with these
things. But if you're good at building it yourself,
you can build it. But I will say the Green Heron
Engineering makes some great polished products.
Same with Ellicraft. What they make works. You
know the L of the icon software works It's you
when you pay it works yeah now The one time I
was thinking about doing this I thought you know
yeah if we did a remote at school so Because
we're up in the penthouse and and so the students
can't always you know get up there and and they
can't do it you know in the evenings from home
or whatever so we actually set up a repeater
and had a repeater controller that would do remote
base and so we were going to try to do that with
remote base but then i got to thinking about
some of these things i asked you about which
was what do you do if you know Here's the other
thing. Or turning the antenna or switching the
antenna or doing something. I gotta point this
out. You gotta make sure you have some sort of
way that your radio will not get stuck in transmit.
Yeah. On all the setups I put in we always make
sure you know if you're stuck in transmit it
for three minutes shuts you off. You can't violate
the FCC rules there. You don't want to accidentally
start spewing computer sounds on the bands yeah
so that was that was always my concern was you
know what happens if something funny goes you
know haywire and then you know I can't get to
it because buildings locked up for the night
you know what do you do in those situations so
that's a little bit of what prompted the the
discussion and we ended up not doing the remote
base. We had some other issues that we weren't
able to work around so we ended up not doing
that. So your idea is you talk it on a repeater?
Yeah. Up on 20 meters? Yep. That was the original
way to do it. Well I'm not sure how legal that
is. You have to have the license for it right,
but if you have a technician Right then you can't
do a repeater then you can't act Right, you know
But but there they may be a third party in part
because they're passing through the repeater
which is licensed by you know an extra class
So I don't I don't know the legal side. Yeah,
you know, yeah, you'd have to have a control
operator I mean you couldn't you couldn't just
leave that on it would be something you would
be something you touch tone on and off I know
it is legal for say a technician to get on a
two meter repeater that crossbands over to 10
meters. I know that is allowed Yeah, yeah, so
this you made you may be able to beat, but this
is a remote base situation, so I don't Be careful
with that As I said, I think support any phone
calls no I'm scaring everybody away They're just
listening light. They're probably watching the
Football game or something. So you never know.
I'm not that you're entertaining. I'm not that
well We check it we try out of the chicken. We
can play the chicken Yeah, there we go and we've
got the cat in the background But I don't know
if you heard it now now one little thing that
that you may not know about One of your friends
Sterling is when he was on the show you could
hear his cat jump off of the desk. Oh really?
Yeah, he found that. It was a little extra Easter
egg that was in that show. You could hear his
cat jump off the desk. My rabbits live outside.
Your rabbit. I have two beautiful bunnies. Very
good. Well, Marty, we're just about out of time,
but I want to thank you for coming on. And I
know there'll be a lot of people listening to
this later on that this will give them some good
ideas on how to start using some remote operations
if they want to get into that and of course it's
not for everybody you know some people are you
know going to say it's not real radio you know
and it is real radio but yeah that's a that's
a discussion that's a that's a You know, there's
some differing opinions on it, but You've given
them some information on how to get started and
I really appreciate you coming on the show Thanks
so much for letting me on making some trouble
here. It's a lot of fun. And again, I just want
to say If anybody wants to get in contact with
me if you're too scared to call in KC1CWF at
KC1CWF .us is the email or just look me up on
QRZ and I'd be happy to help you with your remote
needs. Yes, and now we get a tweet from Sterling
saying, Charlie the Cat is famous on the podcast.
So there we go. Well, that is a wrap for this
week's edition of Ham Talk Live. I'd like to
thank my guest, Marty Solaway, KC1CWF, and everyone
out there in cyberspace that's listening, and
invite you back next Thursday night at 9 p .m.
Eastern Time. when Charles Johnston III, W -8
-K -W -A, will be here to talk about how to get
started with D -Star. And for a list of all of
our upcoming guests, visit HamTalkLive .com.
So for now, with Marty, chicken with fries, this
is Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, saying 7 -3, 7 -5, and
may the good DX be yours. Music Playing