Re: Ethernet to Serial

[Hallett, Charles W]

I have one of the GlenTek RTE Ethernet to Serial (RS-232) boards discussed on this thread.  I ordered it on eBay and it does in fact come from the manufacturer GlenTek.  

I have had several email exchanges with Fred Glenn and he always responds very quickly, ala Elecraft.

I have mine working on my local intranet.  In other words, I can take my laptop into the living room and control my K3 from there.  My purpose in buying it though is to be able to control my K3 from my Arizona ham shack from my office in California where I spend most weeks.

One thing the GlenTek RTE has that the other B-B device doesn't is a three minute timer which covers the FCC regulation that remote operated radios MUST have.  It is just like a time out timer on a repeater, e.g. if the transmitter stays keyed for 3 minutes, it shuts it down.  There are also four other bistable ports that can be used to control other functions in the shack.   You also have a separate on-off control for you transceiver, which works easily with the ACC port on the K3.

As for CW, I already had a WinKeyer USB and noticed on K1EL.com that he had available remote operating software.  I purchased a second WinKeyer and can now send latent-free CW from my second keyer which is linked through my home network.  In other words I can send CW from my laptop in the living room.

Audio link is Skype.  I have two accounts, one on each computer.  I call the one from the other and it auto-answers.  My SignaLink USB sound card processes the audio and I can hear it on my laptop.

I haven't tried PSK-31 yet because I need to reverse the audio on the remote computer to get DM780 to decode it.  I'm still scratching my head on that one.

I am not a computer network guy, and getting the remote to work outside my own LAN is what I am working on now.  This is impeded somewhat by my lack of access to a different LAN.  Unfortunately, my neighbor who has a wireless LAN I can see, cannot remember the password which would allow me access; she's 75 and really doesn't have a clue.

If you have questions, I would suggest you contact Fred at [hidden email] He has been very helpful to me thus far.

Chuck K4SC  Sun City AZ / San Jose CA

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Hallett, Charles W wrote

I am not a computer network guy, and getting the remote to work outside my own LAN is what I am working on now.  This is impeded somewhat by my lack of access to a different LAN.

Hi Fred. I'm not an expert, just an amateur who learns stuff by mistakes (usually a lot of them.) But I always found that I could test whether connections from outside the LAN works just by connecting to my external IP address (the one your network appears as on the internet.)