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Status of the W7SP remote at Leamington: UP
Status of the WA7X remote at Fairview: UP
The Utah Amateur Radio Club operates remotely-controlled
HF transceivers at site in grid squares DM39 and DM49 in central Utah.
UARC members can use these remotes to operate on many HF bands.
The UARC HF Remotes utilize the software framework from the web site http://remotehams.com . You must register using your call sign, not any other nickname, then read the following rules:
Guidelines for use of the UARC remote HF transceivers
Given understanding and acceptance of the rules, please request access
permission from the HF Remote Manager (which is the current UARC
President, Marvin Match, KA7TPH) by sending e-mail to Marvin at president@utaharc.org .
There are some registration and software setup instructions at the
RemoteHams site, but first please read the following manual in PDF
format which was written specifically for the UARC HF Remotes: UARC HF Remote Station Manual
Also available is this Quick Reference Guide to the UARC HF Remote: Quick Reference Guide
Thanks for the many UARC members involved in the development of these
systems. Engineer for the UARC HF Remotes is Gary Crum, KK7DV, who can
be reached by e-mail to gary.crum@utah.edu. Gary can help work any technical issues and answer any questions about these systems.
Technical details about design of the EFHW antennas: EFHWslides.pdf and relevant UARC meeting presentations are HERE about EFHW antennas, and HERE about the UARC remotes in general.
Related is Remotehams User’s Manual for Blind Hams
including keyboard shortcuts for Windows RCForb client software.
This information assumes use of old version 0.8 of the RCForb
Client software, which has been removed from the download site at http://remotehams.com (presumably to encourage use of the newer 0.9 client software) but is still available here for download: RCForb_Client_0.8.6944.exe
(This old version may have a troublesome dependency on Adobe
Flash Player, making it difficult to setup on newer versions of
Windows.)
Slides from the presentation on "Remote Station Operation" at the 2024 Utah Digital Communications Conference are here: KK7DV_Remote_Station_Operation__Utah_DCC_2024.pdf.
Weather station data at both Leamington and Fairview radio sites is available here:
https://ambientweather.net/dashboard/ebc750df5e0c09c6c8f49bba42f030dc (Leamington)
https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KUTLEVAN12 (Leamington)
https://ambientweather.net/dashboard/c48f15a9a7ed33b16fb9f8737b8ed4f7 (Fairview)
Photos of recent activity at the Leamington site are here, including
work erecting the new Cushcraft ASL2010 8-element HF Beam Antenna in 2021 and the new 6-element 6-meter LFA beam in 2024.:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygfjU9Csuv9fP2iMA (UARC Leamington tower+antenna projects, 2021-present)
Specifications of the beam Antenna #3 are here:
https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/instructions/csh-asl2010.pdf
Specifications of the Yaesu G-2800DXA Heavy-Duty Rotator are here:
Yaesu G-2800DXA Antenna Rotator & Controller User Manual
Specifications of the new beam antenna for the 6-meter band which was
installed at the Leamington radio site on August 31, 2024::
EAntenna 50LFA6M, Yagi, 6 Elements, 20.75 ft. Boom Length, Loop Fed Array:
https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/ean-r2010114
Manual: 50lfa6m.pdf
RF Exposure Calculation
has been completed for UARC HF Remotes using variety of frequencies
shows compliance due to remote placement of antennas away from people
with antennas using >=60' tower at Leamington and at least 30' from
building and ground at Fairview.
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