Shack-LAN Basic Radio Interface/Antenna Selector
  • Ethernet radio interface

 

  • Internal level shifting circuits

 

  • 5 antenna selections per band

 

  • Operates independent of  PC

 

  • LED network status indicator

 

  • Automatic antenna switching

 

  • PTT lockout

  

   The Shack-LAN Basic Radio Interface/Antenna Selector is a highly integrated interfacing unit that combines the functions of several shack accessories into one compact box. In addition to providing and Ethernet interface for controlling your radio, it eliminates the need for level shifting interfaces such as the IF-232, provides all the functionality of band decoder units (including Kenwood!),  and combines most of your antenna control switches into a single knob.

   How does one little box do so much? Inside the unit is a powerful microcontroller running a multi-tasking operating system which enables it to not only provide radio control, but it also maintains a connections to the Shack-LAN Bandpass Filter unit (if used) and up to 8 of our Antenna Switches and/or Relay Drivers, independently of your PC.

   The antenna selector knob on the unit can select up to 5 antennas per band. That's right, 5 antennas per band. How does it do this? Since the Radio Interface unit knows which band your radio is currently on, it is able to tell our Antenna Switch and Relay Driver units which antenna to select for that Band/Antenna combination. All this without having to install or change any jumper wires or diode matrixes.

   There is also a PTT lockout that prevents antennas from being switched while transmitting to prevent damaging relay contacts.

   Having all this flexibility in one box makes wiring a multi-radio shack a snap, since all interconnections are done with easy-to-find, inexpensive, standard modular Ethernet cables and gives each operating position access to all antennas, if so desired.

$249