[WT-support] Remote operation

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

The only guy I know who knows how to make remoteRig work well with Win-Test
seems to be busy at the moment.  But he was using Elecraft K3/0 not an
FTdx5000.  I have no personal experience with this.

I'm afraid you're going to have to be the pioneer here.  Please document
everything for us if you manage to make it work.  Chances of success are
low.  There are a lot of things that have to be configured perfectly.

The best approach may be to run Win-Test on the remote computer (especially
for digital modes) and use something like TeamViewer to operate everything
as if you were there. But some keys like CapsLock (used for SO2R) don't
seem to work with TeamViewer.  Anyone know why?

Sharing the radio's COM port between Win-Test and remoteRig may cause
problems because Win-Test tries to poll the radio as fast as possible.  You
may have better luck using OmniRig to control the FTdx5000 instead of the
built-in support.  In any case, make sure you are using a recent version of
Win-Test (4.21 or later, which had remoteRig fixes).

73,
Bob, N6TV

On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 6:56 PM, William Liporace <wc2l at wc2l.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> I am trying to get things going working in time for WW CW. I will be away
> for most of the contest, but I'm hoping I can remotely operate my station.
>
> My current setup is the FTdx5000 radio. I am currently using a Navigator
> for my digital interface and communications for the radio. When I had the
> setup working, I was using Teamviewer for the PC  control and used the
> RemoteRig stuff to send audio and CW sending. I currently have a microHam
> Keyer II kicking around (waiting for cables). I don't think that changes
> any of the the above stuff.
>
> I think that I can pretty easily setup the radio to go to the RemoteRig
> via Com1 or Com2 and just send CW stuff via the Win-Test. I think I will
> have my Surface with me in VT.  Already installed and registered Win-Test.
> I know I have to install the scripts.  I may hook up my rotor control
> (Green Heron RT-21) to Com2 or???
>
> Is there a way to do digital modes remotely? Is there a better option?
> Sorry for the simplistic questions. I'm just starting to get more active
> again...
>
> TNX Will WC2L
>
> William Liporace WC2L
> http://www.wc2l.com
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> AR-Cluster Node telnet dxc.wc2l.com or 144.93 MHz wc2l at wc2l.com
>
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