Lou--Thanks for your ideas. The buzzing transmitted signal was verified by monitoring on a receiver about .5 mile away and was also confirmed by a ham about 1500 miles south of me in Sacramento. I wired the remote RRC on a separate supply today (12V marine battery) and I get three dual tone beeps on the control RRC and the remote will apparently not power up. It had a power light. Tomorrow I will take my heath "cantenna" to the remote radio and try that.
I am running a fairly odd configuration. There is a 900 ft private mountain behind my QTH and I have access to it and an outlet! The outlet is about 100+ ft from the radio due to the wifi link. So I am running a small line of sight wifi link to the mountain and then running the RRC and IC706. Wow! what a difference in HF signal strengths! But nothing is easy and this issue has me puzzling. Here's a link to some photos:
http://www.valhallatreefarm.com/WB7ELY/RRC/rrc.htm73 Dave
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