While not a lot of exciting new stuff, I felt the need to take down and reload. The wife wanted to make some changes on her side of the office so we did both parts while I had some time off for the holidays.
Here is a panoramic shot of my side:
Here is the radio rack. I went with a tiered setback approach, and put the radios that I need to access most often on the bottom.
Here is the list of radios:
Row 1 (Top)
BCD396XT
BC330
PRO106
Alinco DJ-C7
PRO83
Yaesu VX-8DR
PRO43
Kenwood TK-3140
PSR300
BC346XT
PRO83
Motorola HT1550
RS Freq Counter
Alinco DJ-S11
Kenwood TH-F6A
Midland WX Alert Receiver
Row 2
BCT15X
4 BCT15
Row 3
2 BC785D with CSI CD-1’s
BC796D with Opto DC440
BCD996XT
BCD996T
BCC15X
Cimarron MDC Decoder
Uniden HP-1
Row 4
Motorola CDM1250 VHF
Alinco DR-635
Motorola CDM-1250 UHF
2 BCT15’s
Row 5
3 PRO2096
PRO163
PRO197
PSR600
Row 6 (Bottom)
Icom R7000 w AOR ARD25, CSI CD-1 and TV-R7000
Kenwood TS-440AT
Icom R8500 with CSI-CD-1
All of my antennas are in the attic (One of the many joys of a HOA!) but they work well as I am on the highest spot in my neighborhood. Of course, being in northern Illinois, that ain't saying much, the highest spot in my town is the landfill.
I route my coax thru a hole in the ceiling in what used to be the closet of the converted bedroom. Being behind a decliner it is hidden from view. I cut a hole in the drywall, put in a plastic drain pipe flange and glopped a bunch of spackle around it. After the attic was reinsulated I was pretty much cut off from routine access as it is 2 feet deep in blown-in insulation so I filled in the remaining space in the access flange with spray filler.
Here are the coaxes, they split into 2 groups. One is currently used antennas, which continue down the wall to underneath the desktop and then the radios, the second group is for unused antennas that may find a future application, these coaxes are bundled and stashed above a shelf out of the way and out of view:
Can't be a good geek without a bunch of computers. Below you will see 3 monitors. The far right is actually an iMac, the center monitor is also on the iMac. The far left monitor is shared between a Win7 machine (Fast, big HDD, lots of RAM etc.) and an old DOS machine used for Trunker and some older RSS that won't work in Windows. (I use eTrunker on the local EDACS system, still works better than anything else!)
I always get asked why I have so many radios. Well...
Several are used for computer logging, with programs like eTrunker, Pro96Com or ARC-xx. Half a dozen BC15's are used for Tone-Out alerting for my local FD's and the 2 BCT15X's are used to search out and log new tone sets with Arc-XT. The CDM's are used for work channels as well as local ham and GMRS stuff. The others are used for various dial twiddling or searching.
The handhelds usually have homes in my cars, camera bags or on my belt at work.
Also visible is a small part of my collection of 1/200 scale airliner models. The wife rewards my completion of items on the Honey-Do list with new models on occasion, the more I work around the house the more planes I get!
Here is a panoramic shot of my side:
Here is the radio rack. I went with a tiered setback approach, and put the radios that I need to access most often on the bottom.
Here is the list of radios:
Row 1 (Top)
BCD396XT
BC330
PRO106
Alinco DJ-C7
PRO83
Yaesu VX-8DR
PRO43
Kenwood TK-3140
PSR300
BC346XT
PRO83
Motorola HT1550
RS Freq Counter
Alinco DJ-S11
Kenwood TH-F6A
Midland WX Alert Receiver
Row 2
BCT15X
4 BCT15
Row 3
2 BC785D with CSI CD-1’s
BC796D with Opto DC440
BCD996XT
BCD996T
BCC15X
Cimarron MDC Decoder
Uniden HP-1
Row 4
Motorola CDM1250 VHF
Alinco DR-635
Motorola CDM-1250 UHF
2 BCT15’s
Row 5
3 PRO2096
PRO163
PRO197
PSR600
Row 6 (Bottom)
Icom R7000 w AOR ARD25, CSI CD-1 and TV-R7000
Kenwood TS-440AT
Icom R8500 with CSI-CD-1
All of my antennas are in the attic (One of the many joys of a HOA!) but they work well as I am on the highest spot in my neighborhood. Of course, being in northern Illinois, that ain't saying much, the highest spot in my town is the landfill.
I route my coax thru a hole in the ceiling in what used to be the closet of the converted bedroom. Being behind a decliner it is hidden from view. I cut a hole in the drywall, put in a plastic drain pipe flange and glopped a bunch of spackle around it. After the attic was reinsulated I was pretty much cut off from routine access as it is 2 feet deep in blown-in insulation so I filled in the remaining space in the access flange with spray filler.
Here are the coaxes, they split into 2 groups. One is currently used antennas, which continue down the wall to underneath the desktop and then the radios, the second group is for unused antennas that may find a future application, these coaxes are bundled and stashed above a shelf out of the way and out of view:
Can't be a good geek without a bunch of computers. Below you will see 3 monitors. The far right is actually an iMac, the center monitor is also on the iMac. The far left monitor is shared between a Win7 machine (Fast, big HDD, lots of RAM etc.) and an old DOS machine used for Trunker and some older RSS that won't work in Windows. (I use eTrunker on the local EDACS system, still works better than anything else!)
I always get asked why I have so many radios. Well...
Several are used for computer logging, with programs like eTrunker, Pro96Com or ARC-xx. Half a dozen BC15's are used for Tone-Out alerting for my local FD's and the 2 BCT15X's are used to search out and log new tone sets with Arc-XT. The CDM's are used for work channels as well as local ham and GMRS stuff. The others are used for various dial twiddling or searching.
The handhelds usually have homes in my cars, camera bags or on my belt at work.
Also visible is a small part of my collection of 1/200 scale airliner models. The wife rewards my completion of items on the Honey-Do list with new models on occasion, the more I work around the house the more planes I get!
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Very nice job!
