Minor changes to my listening post

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

Well, over the last few months I've gotten some new scanners and gotten rid of one. New would be a BC246T, PRO 2018 and a DX 440 shortwave receiver. Gone is my PRO 96. Here's a couple of pics showing the new stuff hard at work.


At my desk is as follows.....

Radios on the the strip include... BC246T, PRO97, FD150A (2mtr), FD450A (70cm), PRO94 and a PRO37.

In the middle is a Kaito KA1102 shortwave receiver.

At the bottom is "Stilts," the official SSSG listening post mascot, a BCT15, and a Yaesu FT 2800M 2mtr transceiver.



My small bedside setup includes the PRO2018 and the DX440 shortwave receiver.



Not pictured is a PRO137. It's currently providing mobile use duties out in my car.

 

[eddie412]

very nice

 

[hoser147]

Looks good, How ya like the new toys?

 

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

Looks good, How ya like the new toys?

I like the 246T a lot. It packs a lot of analog trunking punch into a small package.

The PRO2018 and DX440 are okay. They do the job I need them to do in a no-frills kind of way.

 

[creeperjeep]

How do you like those Chinese HTs

 

[snikliw87]

Very nice. What antenna are you using for your Yaesu?

 

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

How do you like those Chinese HTs

They're not too bad actually.

They're not quite up to par with the "Big Guys," but for what I needed them to do at the time, they performed pretty decently.

 

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

Very nice. What antenna are you using for your Yaesu?

I've got it hooked up to a simple J-Pole. I live in an apartment (with an jerk for a landlord) where the only kind of outside antenna allowed is a satellite dish, so I have it in a corner of my room. For being inside, it still works remarkably well. On 5 watts I can hit repeaters up to 20 miles out, and on 10 watts I can hit the repeater over in Valparaiso, Indiana; almost 50 miles out. I can only imagine what I could do with it mounted outside someplace.