Re: Station Upgrades with Node Red Integration
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Hi Scott, ? Glad to have you on board! ? Here is a link to the LP100 flow from Al, K0VM [email protected] | Files ? As you update equipment that has connectivity (serial, USB or network) you can consider bringing CAT info from the Elecraft K3¡¯s into Node Red, then be able to do band switching, antenna selection, etc automatically and with a graphical user interface. Node Red is not restricted just to Flex radios. I recently helped a ham interface his Icom 756 Pro III to his PalStar LA-1K amp and various software programs. ? Enjoy, experiment, and learn! ? 73 Dave wo2x ? ?
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From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of Scott Dickson Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 10:47 AM To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [nodered-hamradio] Station Upgrades with Node Red Integration ? Hi Kyle!
I've just begun down the path for Node-Red use to integrate/remote my station.
2 x Elecraft K3
TopTenBand Decoders drive ICE-419b bandpass filters and SixPack for by-band antenna selection using CAT from the radios, so no Node-Red integration needed for that.
M2 Orion rotator and 2 x TicRing rotators, along with many remote antenna switches (some Ameritron brand) for selecting beverages and other varieties of antennas not controlled by the SixPack. I also have six stack matches to integrate.? Currently using N1MMRotator to turn the Orion, but long-term I am going to use the method documented on YouTube by VE6WZ and use PSTRotator running on a computer at the remote site?
I have not yet begun working on the manual antenna switches.
I have an LP-100A - would love to be pointed to a flow for it.? I had planned to just let it run on the local computer via a serial connection.
I use Teamview to connect to the local computer - have been doing this for a couple of weeks now, and working FT8 remotely.??
Also, my amps are all manual AL-1500, AL-1200, AL-811.? Gonna have to bite the bullet for new remote-controlled amps, OR set it up such that each is used only on a single band and use a remote-controlled relay to turn the power on/off.? Not elegant, but perhaps doable.? Will have to overcome resetting OP/STANDBY switch if trips out, as well as the need to retune on 160, 80, 40.??
--Scott W5WZ
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Dave wo2x