What are the uses for auxiliary stations?.
There are several forms of auxiliary operation, such as: 1) Remote control of a station at a different location (such as a repeater on a mountaintop), where a radio link is used to make one-way transmissions of DTMF tones to change its operating parameters 2) Voice links between two or more stations within a system of stations, such as: (a) Point-to-point links from a repeater’s remote receiver(s) back to the main repeater site. (b) Dedicated point-to-point links between different repeaters in a “system” of either full-time or part-time linked repeaters. (c) A combination of remote control and point-to-point voice links intended to control and carry the voice signals from the control point to the transmitter(s) of a remotely controlled station. (This is the equivalent of replacing the wire between the microphone and the transmitter’s mike input with a radio link from the microphone to the remotely located transmitter.) This is commonly referred to as an “uplink.” (d) Point-to-point lin
