ChatoB
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Hey Fellas, I'm a long-time member/lurker, but rare poster. I thought you guys might get a kick out of seeing the radios I installed in my 2004 F350. I needed the radios because I was a freelance breaking-news video photographer for six years in the San Diego area. Simultaneously I was a car repossessor and thus needed a large truck to do that job. Essentially, I was working my repo accounts while monitoring public-safety comms for news leads. I would shoot a news story, drop a dub of the tape to the local TV stations, and then get back to working my repo accounts. It was a cool gig until I became a family man and got a 9-5 job.
Anyway, what you see in the pictures are the following radios:
Motorola X9000 – High-band VHF
Motorola X9000 – Low-band VHF
Motorola X9000 – UHF
Two Motorola 800MHz Astro Spectras
Two Motorola 800MHz Analog Spectras
Icom 706 MKIIG
Uniden BC780XLT
Also installed was a Panasonic PDRC connected to a Gamber Johnson CF-18 docking station. My CF-18 has internet access (via Sprint air-card) and GPS.
There are two auxiliary batteries installed (via an isolator) inside of a tool-box in the bed. All the radios are powered off those batteries and not the truck battery.
Two of the pictures were taken during the install about a year and a half ago. The antennas (9 of them... all NMO-mount) have been switched out to low-profile antennas since these pictures were taken.
Whadda you think?
Anyway, what you see in the pictures are the following radios:
Motorola X9000 – High-band VHF
Motorola X9000 – Low-band VHF
Motorola X9000 – UHF
Two Motorola 800MHz Astro Spectras
Two Motorola 800MHz Analog Spectras
Icom 706 MKIIG
Uniden BC780XLT
Also installed was a Panasonic PDRC connected to a Gamber Johnson CF-18 docking station. My CF-18 has internet access (via Sprint air-card) and GPS.
There are two auxiliary batteries installed (via an isolator) inside of a tool-box in the bed. All the radios are powered off those batteries and not the truck battery.
Two of the pictures were taken during the install about a year and a half ago. The antennas (9 of them... all NMO-mount) have been switched out to low-profile antennas since these pictures were taken.
Whadda you think?