[amsat-bb] AMSAT: Remoting of Radios

[Don KB2YSI]

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 at 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
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-- 
73,
Don KB2YSI
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