Operate your Icom IC-R8600 remotely
RemoteMyShack puts your Icom IC-R8600 in your browser: listen to it from your phone, tablet or laptop at yourcall.remotemyshack.com, with its audio, its spectrum scope and waterfall, and the controls you use at the shack. A small agent on a computer next to the radio connects to it by Ethernet; there's no VPN or port forwarding to set up.
What works with the IC-R8600
| Connects by | Ethernet |
|---|---|
| Receives | Receives 10 kHz–3 GHz |
| Transmit | No: it's a receiver, so you listen only |
| Spectrum scope | Yes: the radio's own scope and waterfall, streamed to your screen (more) |
| Remote power-on | Yes: it stays reachable on your network while off, so you can switch it on from anywhere |
| Tested | Not by us yet: it uses the same commands as the Icom radios we've tested and is expected to work |
Connect it over Ethernet.
What you can do from the console
- Tune, change band, mode, filter and DATA mode, and read the S-meter from your phone or laptop.
- Hear the radio, with two-way audio on transceivers: hold to talk, with automatic unkey if your connection drops.
- Adjust RF gain, preamp, attenuator, AGC, noise blanker and noise reduction where the radio has them; the radio's own speaker is turned down while the agent is connected. On a FlexRadio the RF gain slider sets SmartSDR's AGC threshold; on a Hermes Lite 2 it sets the receive gain (LNA).
- Send CW from the console with the radio's keyer (the agent keys a Hermes Lite 2 itself), and RTTY as audio.
- Every transmission is recorded in your transmit log.
Setting it up
Install the agent on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, or a Raspberry Pi, next to the radio, link it to your account, and open yourcall.remotemyshack.com. These articles walk you through it:
- Getting started
- Installing the agent
- Connecting a radio over the network
- Turning the radio on and off
- The spectrum scope and waterfall
- Download the agent
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