Subject: Remoting of Radios
I saw a clever box at Dayton for remoting Radios and Controls over dozens of feet.
The interconnecting cable was just standard VGA cables. The "VGA" boxes at the radio end had the correct pigtails to plug into the radio and the "VGA" box at the control location had jacks for the Mic, Control Head, data, and Speaker, etc.
The cleverness was in using the 3 or 4 internally&seaparately shielded conductors in standard VGA cables to carry the signals while shielded.
And with the phase out of VGA, there are usually tons of VGA cables appearing in junk boxes everywhere from ten feet to 100 feet.
So save those VGA chassis mount connectors to take advantage of these easy to find multiconductor multipurpose "VGA" cables.
Bob, WB4APR
If you do not have any laying around, they can be had pretty cheaply, ~$15 for 50' on monoprice dot com.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM Robert Bruninga via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Subject: Remoting of Radios
I saw a clever box at Dayton for remoting Radios and Controls over dozens of feet.
The interconnecting cable was just standard VGA cables. The "VGA" boxes at the radio end had the correct pigtails to plug into the radio and the "VGA" box at the control location had jacks for the Mic, Control Head, data, and Speaker, etc.
The cleverness was in using the 3 or 4 internally&seaparately shielded conductors in standard VGA cables to carry the signals while shielded.
And with the phase out of VGA, there are usually tons of VGA cables appearing in junk boxes everywhere from ten feet to 100 feet.
So save those VGA chassis mount connectors to take advantage of these easy to find multiconductor multipurpose "VGA" cables.
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I saw no less than 50 boxes full of VGA, parallel, serial, IEC and other antiquated cables scattered throughout Hamvention, with the word "FREE" written on them. Not a terrible idea.
-Sterling N0SSC
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:11 PM Don KB2YSI via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
If you do not have any laying around, they can be had pretty cheaply, ~$15 for 50' on monoprice dot com.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:07 PM Robert Bruninga via AMSAT-BB < amsat-bb@amsat.org> wrote:
Subject: Remoting of Radios
I saw a clever box at Dayton for remoting Radios and Controls over dozens of feet.
The interconnecting cable was just standard VGA cables. The "VGA" boxes
at
the radio end had the correct pigtails to plug into the radio and the
"VGA"
box at the control location had jacks for the Mic, Control Head, data,
and
Speaker, etc.
The cleverness was in using the 3 or 4 internally&seaparately shielded conductors in standard VGA cables to carry the signals while shielded.
And with the phase out of VGA, there are usually tons of VGA cables appearing in junk boxes everywhere from ten feet to 100 feet.
So save those VGA chassis mount connectors to take advantage of these
easy
to find multiconductor multipurpose "VGA" cables.
Bob, WB4APR _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership.
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