You can take two compatiple wireless modules, each one connected to a microcontrller via SPI or UART interface.Also you may use a Bluetooth module like WT11i from BlueGiga. It have an UART interface compatible with any microcontroller.
it depend on what you want to do whit timer 1. in witch mode you want to work?for easy setting timer 1 use codevision AVR and codeWizard. then you don't need to work whit registers.
How to configure the timer 1 in atmega 32?. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_configure_the_timer_1_in_atmega_32 [accessed Jun 2, 2015].