So ive been messing around with remote station control for about six months now and honestly its been a mixed bag. Started with RemoteHams because everyone kept recommending it and yeah its pretty slick for getting up and running fast, the SDR remote side especially works better than i expected for just browsing around the bands without committing to a full TX session.

But heres the thing - im running a K3 at the home QTH and the latency through their servers is just... noticeable enough to be annoying on CW. Im doing maybe 20wpm and i keep feeling like somethings off. Could be my internet, could be the routing, i dunno. Anyone else notice this or am i just being too sensitive about it.

Also been looking at the internet linking side, like using something closer to an Allstar or even just a direct VPN tunnel to my router and running the rig control over that instead. Seems like it would cut out the middleman but then you lose all the nice RemoteHams UI stuff which my wife actually uses sometimes when she wants to listen to shortwave without bothering me about it.

Not really sure what im asking here, just curious what other people are doing for serious remote ops vs casual SDR listening on the same station.

The latency thing on CW is real and it drove me nuts too. I ended up ditching the RemoteHams routing for my main rig and just set up a direct WireGuard VPN back to the shack. Ham Radio Deluxe remote or even just flrig over the tunnel works fine and the latency is basically whatever my actual internet connection is, not whatever route RemoteHams decides to take that day.

That said i still keep the RemoteHams SDR side going because its genuinely useful for letting other people listen in or for me to do a quick band check from my phone without firing up a whole VPN session. Theyre kind of solving different problems honestly. One is for serious operating and one is more like a window into the shack.

The Allstar linking thing is a different animal, thats really more for VHF/UHF repeater linking than HF remote control, unless youre doing something creative with it that im not thinking of.

yeah 20wpm over any kind of relayed remote is gonna feel mushy, even with good latency numbers on paper the jitter kills it. i know guys running CW remotely but they're usually on direct connections with sub-50ms round trip and even then its a skill you kind of have to relearn a bit

the SDR remote part of RemoteHams is underrated imo, ive used it to scope out a pileup before deciding whether to bother getting on, which sounds lazy but honestly saves time