Thanks to the generous time of NB3C (was KQ3DX) a couple of weekends ago, I've got my TS-480S set up, succesfully for the moment, for remote access & control.
Right now, it's just "within the shack" (let alone within the home LAN), as I've got some issues getting my FiOS router's firewall to pass the right ports through. (I may just give in and put the control PC in the DMZ, as there's nothing critical per se on the machine, but I really hate to do that on general principles. Kinda like leaving the car in the driveway with the keys in the ignition... you can get away with it in most neighborhoods, but why would you if you didn't have to?) But I'll get that figured out.
I can control the rig via either HamRadio Deluxe or via Kenwood's own proprietary software. So far, so good. But...
What I'm curious about is, for those others who have remoted their rigs in the recent past, was how they transferred the radio's audio stream (speaker & mike) from point "A" to point "B" if the controlling software didn't already cover that? Rube Goldberg might be proud of the way this is configured right now, but I feel there has to be a better way.
At the moment, the radio's auxilliary speaker out is plugged directly into the computer's sound card. (I have the sound card-to-mike cable on order, should be here any day). But neither HRD or Kenwood's software moves that from the host PC to the remote.
So, the kludge is this: Access the host PC via a remote connection (pcAnywhere until I have a chance to configure Windows Remote Desktop). Dial the remote PC from the host PC via Skype. Drop the remote connection but leave Skype running. (This presumes we already have the control program working from remote to host, of course)
Surely there has to be a better way!
Thoughts?
73, ron w3wn