A crude Silverado 1500 set up for work

[sefrischling]

A crude setup in my 2011 Silverado.

My two-ways are all portables, a mix of radios, including a Harris XG-100 (the primary for both FDs I serve), Kenwood Viking, Harris XL-200 and as a handy secondary radio an Anytone 878. One of these days I'll install the mobile radio in here.

 

[QPLou5645187]

Not sure I understand the concept but I'm just getting into this. I'm curious. Why so many radio's? What kind of work do you do?

 

[es93546]

It would be helpful to see a daylight shot or one with the overhead lights on.

 

[slowmover]

Need to dim ALL of that past dusk as it significantly interferes with night vision for any distance.

One radio is adequate at any time, otherwise, given need day or night for greatest visual distance without interference to concentration.

There are some decent examples of how to mount. I’d start with passenger seat floor bolt laptop stand and adapt from there.

 

[03msc]

Need to dim ALL of that past dusk as it significantly interferes with night vision for any distance.

One radio is adequate at any time, otherwise, given need day or night for greatest visual distance without interference to concentration.

There are some decent examples of how to mount. I’d start with passenger seat floor bolt laptop stand and adapt from there.

It's a night shot which the phone would compensate for, making displays appear brighter than to the human eye.

You made several opinion statements as if they are fact. Just because you'd do something one way doesn't mean that's the right or only way.

 

[W2JGA]

Not sure I understand the concept but I'm just getting into this. I'm curious. Why so many radio's? What kind of work do you do?

 

[sefrischling]

Not sure I understand the concept but I'm just getting into this. I'm curious. Why so many radio's? What kind of work do you do?

My day job is as an Emergency Recovery Coordinator, my area of responsibility is four of my state's 8 counties. When I leave that job, I am a fire service Public Information Officer, handling the daily external affairs messaging for four departments, as well as being contracted to another unrelated fire department to build out their external affairs messaging. In my spare time, I am an emergency management contractor, tasked to an incident management team, primarily as a PIO. I want to hear everything.

 

[sefrischling]

Need to dim ALL of that past dusk as it significantly interferes with night vision for any distance.

One radio is adequate at any time, otherwise, given need day or night for greatest visual distance without interference to concentration.

There are some decent examples of how to mount. I’d start with passenger seat floor bolt laptop stand and adapt from there.

One radio is not adequate for what I do professionally. You can't effectively monitor dispatch and TAC channels on a single radio. You cannot effectively monitor incoming mutual aid while monitoring dispatch and TAC channels. While three radios are scanner, other radios are separate because some of what I have to monitor is VHF, some is UHF, some is 7/800. Often when there is a call operating, scanners are all locked into one channel and only one channel, rather than scanning. This way I can monitor, for example, dispatch, TAC/Fireground, mutual aid, law enforcement, water supply, and then if one scans, it is scanning towns immediately surrounding us, to monitor other incidents that may be requiring the same resources we are utilizing. For a water call, a radio monitors Marine / Coast Guard, for calls on the interstate one radio monitors the state police while another monitors town police.

I have no laptop set up in my truck, however I do use a tablet, which you can see and it is mounted effectively, so I am not sure what you're getting at here. Why do you think i need a laptop? I had one but found that I can access CAD, EOC portals and weather from my tablet, which is much easier and more effective.

 

[slowmover]

Opinion? Sure is. And based on more miles than you’ll ever cover, in conditions you’ll never experience, and with skills you’ll not ever acquire.

Something always gives way. And that’ll be visual interpretation of what’s at distance every time.

But you’ll call it, “an accident”.
There are no accidents.


— Laptop stand is tall enough to then modify to accommodate devices.

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[sefrischling]

Opinion? Sure is. And based on more miles than you’ll ever cover, in conditions you’ll never experience, and with skills you’ll not ever acquire.
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Based on what knowledge of me, or my experience, do you make this statement? That is just one of those "let me say something so I sound important" type comments that is just baffling.

 

[slowmover]

The pic said it all.
Good luck.

 

[QPLou5645187]

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So something like this really exists or is this just a prop? If it's real, I had no ideas that such stuff existed!

 

[QPLou5645187]

My day job is as an Emergency Recovery Coordinator, my area of responsibility is four of my state's 8 counties. When I leave that job, I am a fire service Public Information Officer, handling the daily external affairs messaging for four departments, as well as being contracted to another unrelated fire department to build out their external affairs messaging. In my spare time, I am an emergency management contractor, tasked to an incident management team, primarily as a PIO. I want to hear everything.

Thanks for explaining. I sort of understand. As time goes on and I get better educated, I'll come to appreciate these things!

 

[W2JGA]

So something like this really exists or is this just a prop? If it's real, I had no ideas that such stuff existed!

I've seen some elaborate setups, not quite like that though.

If memory serves me correctly, this car was setup to imitate the 'ham radio wacker' stereotype.

 

[billpritjr]

what do you mean, "you need to hear it all"

what do you do when 4 simultaneous equally serious incidents, in different areas, come in? Do you stop listening to one and not the other?

 

[03msc]

If you look around on these forums for very long you'll see many many setups with multiple scanners and/or radios in shacks and mobile installs. Why? So we don't miss something. There are times it isn't necessary but then there are times when it is very handy.

 

[sefrischling]

what do you mean, "you need to hear it all"

what do you do when 4 simultaneous equally serious incidents, in different areas, come in? Do you stop listening to one and not the other?

I track a lot of information. At times I am at one incident, handling one incident, while sorting out public information messaging for another incident. It happens. Prioritizing doesn't mean ignoring.

 

[W2JGA]

On another note, show me a scanner that won't miss a transmission while receiving a current one. This is why some people have multiple setups.

 

[sefrischling]

On another note, show me a scanner that won't miss a transmission while receiving a current one. This is why some people have multiple setups.

In my set up, only three of those are scanners, a 996XT, SDS 100 and SDS 200. The others sit on their designated channels. I adjust channels as I move around, it just makes more sense for how I work.

 

[03msc]

it just makes more sense for how I work

And that's all you need to say. Shouldn't have to explain yourself to anyone.