[amsat-bb] AMSAT: Remoting of Radios

[Sterling Mann]

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 at 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 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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