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eHam Forums => Remote HF Station Control => Topic started by: KA6WKE on March 11, 2021, 02:13:39 PM

Title: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: KA6WKE on March 11, 2021, 02:13:39 PM

Well it looks like I'll be moving from my non-HOA home into another home in a HOA. Before anyone gets started on "don't buy in an HOA" it simply can't be avoided. With that said, I'm looking for advice on how to find a remote site in the Phoenix AZ area where I could put my station & antennas and remote it from home. I'm at the brainstorming stage of this move so I'm open to all ideas. My station consists of Icom 7610 & LDG auto tuner. I do have an IC-2KL that needs some attention but could also be used sometime in the future. I don't have any particular antenna in mind but it probably has to be on the robust side since it could be some distance away. I mostly contest CW & RTTY with the occasional SSB net check in. Any V/UHF can be done from the home so not worried about that. Just getting on HF.

I might get lucky and find a place where stealth antennas would work but for now would like to cover all my bases.

Thanks & 73 - Mark KA6WKE/7

Title: Re: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: WA9AFM on March 11, 2021, 04:03:54 PM

Same situation in OKC.  I do have a 'HOA stealth' antenna, but I could do better.

Title: Re: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: WA5RR on March 11, 2021, 05:01:28 PM

Check out RemoteHams. You might be able to find someone to host your station and then connect to it remotely. Also, there might already be a station on the air near you.

Title: Re: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: NO9E on March 27, 2021, 08:23:13 AM

I bought a dream QTH in GA. No limits on anything and 26 ac. Beverages, 4sq and 100 ft tower with phased beams. Whisper quiet.

Then power line noise started. Local power company can fix but cannot find. Finding the source is hard because the noise travels on power lines, and what seems to be 500 feet away may be a mile away. Now my local work is finding RFI 80% of the time.
 
I am hearing the same story from other owners of remote locations.

Ignacy NO9E

Title: Re: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: W9FIB on March 28, 2021, 04:47:26 AM

A possible solution would be to check with realtors outside the metro area. They may have connections to local lands available and have no CCRs to worry about. But then it begs the question if power and internet are available out in the rural desert. But a possibility. I would think anything too close to the metro area would be expensive and gobbled up by developers with the Phoenix area growing so fast.

Title: Re: Finding a Remote Site
Post by: W6QW on April 06, 2021, 03:42:51 PM

Mark - drop an email to W7RH.  He has a remote site in northern AZ that he remotes from Las Vegas.

Here's a link for a synopsis of his 160M remote set-up:  W7RH.net