Thanks for the replies, guys.
@ follower: You're right. :-[ Short story: I want to use switches/ buttons etc on the inputs of the transmitter arduino to control things (mainly motors) with outputs from the receiver arduino. I get that I might need an interface after the second arduino.
Quote:< one of the best documented libraries>: hmm, I'm sure I must have missed a lot of it. Any links? Apart from the site I downloaded VirtualWire from. I better check there again.