James Patterson

so i was just messing around on 10 meters yesterday afternoon, wasnt really expecting much because its been pretty quiet lately, and all of a sudden the band just opened up like crazy. i was hearing stations from south america, europe, even picked up what sounded like a japanese station for a few minutes before i lost him. running just 100 watts into a dipole in the attic and i was getting 59 reports from guys in Brazil. honestly havent seen 10m like that in a while, felt like the cycle 25 stuff people have been talking about is really starting to show up.
also saw a post somewhere that Icom is supposed to be releasing some kind of updated version of the 7300 or a new rig in that same price range? cant find the original article now. anyone heard anything about that or know where i saw it? been thinking about upgrading from my current setup and that price range is kind of where im looking.

so i was just messing around on 10 meters yesterday afternoon, wasnt really expecting much because its been pretty quiet lately, and all of a sudden the band just opened up like crazy. i was hearing stations from south america, europe, even picked up what sounded like a japanese station for a few minutes before i lost him. running just 100 watts into a dipole in the attic and i was getting 59 reports from guys in Brazil. honestly havent seen 10m like that in a while, felt like the cycle 25 stuff people have been talking about is really starting to show up.
also saw a post somewhere that Icom is supposed to be releasing some kind of updated version of the 7300 or a new rig in that same price range? cant find the original article now. anyone heard anything about that or know where i saw it? been thinking about upgrading from my current setup and that price range is kind of where im looking.

so ive been messing around with remote station control for a few months now and finally got a semi-stable setup going but im running into some weirdness with the SDR side of things. Background: I have an IC-7300 at the home QTH, running RCForb server on a windows box there, and im accessing it from my apartment about 40 miles away. The rig control part works fine, PTT works, audio in both directions is acceptable. The problem is ive been trying to layer in an SDR — specifically an RTL-SDR dongle connected to a small discone at the remote end — so i can get a wideband panadapter view while operating. RemoteHams supposedly supports this workflow but i cannot for the life of me get the SDR stream to stay stable. It connects, shows the spectrum for maybe 30-45 seconds, then just dies. Audio keeps going fine, rig control keeps going fine, just the SDR feed drops.
My internet at the remote end is about 25 down / 5 up which i know isnt great for the uplink. The SDR bandwidth is set to 2.048 MHz sample rate which should be around 4 Mbps of raw data compressed... or at least thats what im assuming. Could easily be wrong about that math. Anyone dealt with this? is there a buffer setting somewhere im missing or is this just a known flaky thing with the RTL over RemoteHams?