This post may sound a bit weird, but I have wanted to know how to do this for a long time. Please let me explain "why" I want to know how to control a floodlight , via a cb radio signal, from a long distance away (but still line of sight) :
I have a cabin in the mountains. We often leave the cabin at night, and from remote places, (perhaps 10-15 miles away), I have looked over in our direction (from another mountaintop) and "think" that I can pick out our property by seeing the floodlights on our deck. Now, if I could turn these lights on and off remotely, via keying up a cb signal, that would be super !!
It seems that I could key up a cb rig on a quiet channel , which would break the squelch on my cb receiver at home. The breaking of that squelch should be able to key some type of relay that would then turn my deck lights on and off. Perhaps the "key" would be the squelch circuit itself, or more simply, the noise that would come from my cb rig at home, the sound of which might key a relay................ ????
Am I on the right track here ?? I have wondered if I could incorporate some of those X10 remote lighting control devices for the home in some manner ?? Or perhaps use similar stuff from Radio Shack ? The hardest part is the "keying" particulars, I am just not sure how to piece it all together.
Can anyone offer any ideas on this please ??
Thanks !!
--James--