I have an Astron Power supply and want to put it in my house with a Uniden BCD996XT scanner, and a couple of VHF mobile radios (Icom and Kenwood Mobile). Which online source has a pre-made casing/mounting rack so I can "install" the radios into the rack and set it on my desk in my office at home?
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Where to buy a radio mounting rack for power supply plus a few radios?
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Then who do you buy from?
Home and Comm Center Brackets and Mounts for Police Scanner | ScannerMaster.com
Home and Comm Center Brackets and Mounts for Police Scanner Radios.
www.scannermaster.com
But I needed more for my 16 Uniden Scanners.
As posted the OP wants to use 2way Radios also.
As posted the OP wants to use 2way Radios also.
Works fine for two-way. I have three two-way and one scanner in their four-unit tower. Another has two two-ways and two scanners. Similar for other staff and workstations. Mounted the mic brackets on the side where wires don't cross. Simple solution.
If a more elegant solution is desired, sure, use a shorty or full rack and use the rack mount options they show.
If a more elegant solution is desired, sure, use a shorty or full rack and use the rack mount options they show.
Check out JottoDesk faceplates for radios; this link goes to some Bearcat(Uniden) choices;
Also Havis faceplates for console-mounted radios:
www.havis.com
And Troy:
troyproducts.com
Also Havis faceplates for console-mounted radios:
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And Troy:
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I have a 18U rack with 16 Scanners a PC all tied to PROSCAN.
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on top 15's next 536's and SDS200 in the middle and my 6 996P2's on bottem
Do you have a preferred configuration? (Radios 2 x 2, with power supply underneath? One stack? etc...)
Not really. I just want some sort of rack to hold the power supply, and the radios and scanner to look neat. Nothing fancy...
NovexComm, as noted above are excellent but expensive.
For a few radios the ScannerMaster desktop racks are simple and effective. One guy here took a 4-radio rack and mounted a power supply on it to power the radios. He used a Stridsberg multicoupler for a self-contained unit, it was so sharp I copied it myself for my desk radios for a while. With these radio stands you could mount one radio on top and the rest below so a "4-radio" rack could actually hold 5.
For my main setup I have a couple dozen radios in a full size network cabinet, for less radios you could do the same thing with smaller cabinets. For scanners and 2-ways I too use the JottoDesk faceplates and the rack plates came from North Comm (Radio Rack Mount - Fans & Radio Inserts). I have a bunch of the rack plates, a couple with built-in Astron power supplies. I have NovexCom custom racks for the big Icoms.
If you are good with building you can create a cabinet of your own, there was a guy here who build a great looking cabinet for about 10 radios by using a wood front with cutouts and brackets to hold the radios.
One of my possibilities at one time was to build (OK, have built...) a corner desk with a raised back for monitors that had space under the monitor stands for radios to be rack-mounted. That never got off the ground since I like to move things around and that would not work for that.
For a few radios the ScannerMaster desktop racks are simple and effective. One guy here took a 4-radio rack and mounted a power supply on it to power the radios. He used a Stridsberg multicoupler for a self-contained unit, it was so sharp I copied it myself for my desk radios for a while. With these radio stands you could mount one radio on top and the rest below so a "4-radio" rack could actually hold 5.
For my main setup I have a couple dozen radios in a full size network cabinet, for less radios you could do the same thing with smaller cabinets. For scanners and 2-ways I too use the JottoDesk faceplates and the rack plates came from North Comm (Radio Rack Mount - Fans & Radio Inserts). I have a bunch of the rack plates, a couple with built-in Astron power supplies. I have NovexCom custom racks for the big Icoms.
If you are good with building you can create a cabinet of your own, there was a guy here who build a great looking cabinet for about 10 radios by using a wood front with cutouts and brackets to hold the radios.
One of my possibilities at one time was to build (OK, have built...) a corner desk with a raised back for monitors that had space under the monitor stands for radios to be rack-mounted. That never got off the ground since I like to move things around and that would not work for that.
These guys make a bunch of rack panels for both commercial, ham and scanner models...along with a bunch of other cool gear. About to reconfigure the shack and they're on my radar.
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A friend of mine bought NovexComm a few years ago, so if there have been any quality problems before that it was the previous owner. Everything I've seen from them recently has been very good quality and many local hams around here have stuff fabricated and are happy. They are at many big ham conventions and you can check out the quality first hand. If my shack wasn't always a complete mess I would invite Bob from NovexComm over to get dimensions on all my good stuff and I would mount it all in sloped console racks with desks. But I can't seem to keep up with the mess.....
If you want custom rack trays for various radios the prices are not too bad. If you want them to make you a complete portable rack with power supply, cooling, temp and voltmeters, etc, it will get pricey.
If you want custom rack trays for various radios the prices are not too bad. If you want them to make you a complete portable rack with power supply, cooling, temp and voltmeters, etc, it will get pricey.
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