Steel City ARC – Remote Stations
Below is the descriptions of the Steel City ARC remote stations. These are provided as a member benefit of belonging to the Steel City ARC. If you live in an apartment or travel a lot these remote stations let you keep in touch with your fellow ham friends. So if you live close to Pittsburgh, PA feel free to come up to our club house and check out all of our radios and then sign up for a membership.
Remote 1:
Our members can access our Remote 1 station from anywhere in the world. performance. With the combination of of the club array of antennas this remote radio can access the HF bands from 160 to 10 meters. It can also cover the 6 meter, 2 meter, 70 meter bands with all modes capable. We have had members win DX and national contest via this remote station while they were on vacation in Florida. Provision of main and sub bands enables dual-channel watch. This all-mode multibander can simultaneously receive two frequencies, even on the same band, allowing such combinations as HF+VHF/UHF, and VHF+UHF. This means, for instance, that you can pick up local information on V/UHF while operating HF on the main band. Members have even cross band HF bands to VHF to let users of our repeaters access our 10 meter nets.
This radio is an full time remote station
Remote 2:
Our Remote 2 station severs dual duty. If at the clubhouse any members can operate the station locally but when your at home or away you can still access this station remotely. One of our members won an 160 meter band contest recently using this as an remote station. The radio beside covering all the HF bands from 160 meter though 10 meter also cover the 6 meter band. We have several members that use this radio for 6m meteor scatter. Since you are connecting though a computer you can run any PC software on the computer. This lets you also have access to digital mode like PSK31, JT65, and SSTV so whatever you like to do in Ham Radio you can do with these remotes.
| This radio can be used at the club or as a remote station. Club rules dictate that the clubhouse user has the right over any remote use. |
Steel City has now switched over to the RemoteHams.com software. This software will work on all three remotes and will handles the radio control and audio for the radio. So you no longer need to have VNC and Skype two separate programs to work our remote. The software handle all the voice modes and even sending out CW via the remote. You will only need VNC connection if you work one of the digital modes. The software is free to use and all Steel City members have full access to the remotes.