so ive been messing around with remote station control for about six months now and finally got something stable enough that i dont feel embarrassed talking about it. running a IC-7300 at the home QTH tied into RemoteHams client, works fine for basic stuff but i started wondering if anyone has actually bolted an SDR onto the backend for panadapter output through the remote session. i know the 7300 has the USB audio and IQ output stuff but getting that piped cleanly through the RemoteHams infrastructure without the latency going completely sideways has been a pain.

the internet linking side of things is where it gets messy for me. ive got a decent upload at home, maybe 35mbps, but the remote end where i operate from is sometimes pretty sketchy hotel wifi and the audio compression artifacts are already noticeable on SSB. adding SDR data on top of that feels like wishful thinking but i keep reading about people doing it so figured id ask here before i spend another weekend going down a rabbit hole.

anyone have a working setup they'd describe? not looking for a perfect solution just want to know what tradeoffs people are actually living with day to day

yeah ive been doing something like this for almost two years now. my setup is a bit different — im using a separate SDRplay RSPdx just for the panadapter view, feeding it through a splitter off the antenna, and running SDR-Console on the shack PC independently from the RemoteHams session. they dont talk to each other directly, i just have both running on the same remote desktop session over VNC. its clunky honestly but it works and the latency on the VNC side for the visual panadapter is totally acceptable since you dont need low latency for just looking at a waterfall.

the audio path stays entirely through RemoteHams which keeps the compression and timing issues contained to one stream. splitting them out was the key thing for me. trying to do it all through one pipe was a nightmare, the SDR data would basically murder the audio quality every time there was any band activity worth looking at.

hotel wifi is gonna be rough no matter what. i wouldnt even attempt the SDR side on anything below a consistent 10mbps with low jitter. the audio alone on RemoteHams is surprisingly resilient but once you start adding video or IQ data it gets ugly fast.

dont overthink the SDR piece, at least not for a first pass at remote ops. i spent way too long trying to get a fancy panadapter working remotely and honestly just having the rig audio and CAT control solid is 90% of the battle. RemoteHams has gotten a lot better in the last year or so with the audio codec stuff and if your home connection is decent you can run it pretty well.

the internet linking question is kind of a separate thing depending on what you mean — if youre talking about linking into a repeater network or echolink type stuff thats a whole different rabbit hole than just remote HF operation. or maybe you meant something else, hard to tell from the post. either way id just get the basic remote working reliably before piling on more complexity, learned that the hard way myself after a particularly frustrating weekend in a hotel in Denver trying to work some DX through a half-broken setup that i never properly tested before leaving home