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Hmm...

Even though all you wanted to is a simple on/off controller, I'd imagine you'd also want this alarm to be some what reliable, correct? This means, you can't just use a simple carrier-only transmitter, and some kind of modulation and coding is needed (i.e. FSK).

So I'd just pickup a pair of RF link transmitter/receiver, like these ones:

They are pretty darn cheap!