My small Home shack

[ngreed]

My small shack with a Radioshack Pro-96 Scanner, and a Vertex Standard VX-160 Radio.

A close up shot of my Pro-96 Scanner.

A close up shot of my VX-160 Radio.

A overview shot of my shack desk area.

I hope to get a few more scanners in the near future, as well as get a nice mobile shack in my PT Cruiser.

 

[frazpo]

What kind of gaming are you into?

 

[ngreed]

Joystick and Throttle are for X-Plane flight simulator.

 

[Nozzleman71]

On the Pro 96 have you noticed any reduction in the audio level when you plug in the external speaker ? I have one and when i plug in the speaker it makes the volume real low and I have to turn volume to full blast to hear it. Thanks

 

[sfd119]

On the Pro 96 have you noticed any reduction in the audio level when you plug in the external speaker ? I have one and when i plug in the speaker it makes the volume real low and I have to turn volume to full blast to hear it. Thanks

Powered speaker?

 

[radio3353]

On the Pro 96 have you noticed any reduction in the audio level when you plug in the external speaker ? I have one and when i plug in the speaker it makes the volume real low and I have to turn volume to full blast to hear it. Thanks

The scanner's headphone jack has a resistor wired in series to limit the volume (for hearing protection.) As the previous poster suggested, a powered speaker will help. It is possible to bypass the resistor. A discussion about it is in this thread...
http://forums.radioreference.com/radio-shack-scanners/123721-pro-96-106-headphone-jack.html

 

[Nozzleman71]

It is not a powered speaker, so i will check out the thread. Thanks for the replies

 

[ngreed]

On the Pro 96 have you noticed any reduction in the audio level when you plug in the external speaker ? I have one and when i plug in the speaker it makes the volume real low and I have to turn volume to full blast to hear it. Thanks

It is plugged into a powered speaker and sub woofer set that I have used on one of my old computers. There is no reduction in audio quality, in fact it is way better then the internal speaker on the Pro-96, I have the Pro-96 about 1/4 of the way up, and it is more then loud enough to hear clearly.

 

[bonez01]

Nice setup. Thank you for sharing.

 

[SCPD]

Nice shack,whats with the Penguin?

 

[ngreed]

The Penguin is the Linux Penguin Tux. Before I started using a Mac, I was a big Linux user.