Hiding the Bedroom Shack from the XYL! :-)

[Secret_Squirrel]

Heck, I figured people would notice that the background on your monitor is a picture of the room that all of that stuff is in. That in itself is pretty weird.

 

[WouffHong]

Yup - You got the third weirdness, although I had decided it was too mundane to mention..
Tom

 

[jwile20vt]

cool setup man , you have inspired me to take a pic of my setup and post , i'm rocking a bedroom shack also , shared with my computer rig .

nice setup

 

[WouffHong]

The HARDEST part (actually IMPOSSIBLE part! ) is keeping it that neat.. That's where the Roll-top desk comes into play.. ;-)

 

[Rover]

The HARDEST part (actually IMPOSSIBLE part! ) is keeping it that neat.. That's where the Roll-top desk comes into play.. ;-)

Sweet set up

Keep up the Good Work...Dad, I know mom apperciates it after 40 years Hi, Hi, and just think... keeps the Grandkids out of the rigs....

73 ..Ray KB4OMO

 

[WouffHong]

XYL and 2nd-Harmonics

QSL that, Ray! ;-) -- Although we gotta get the G-kids (2nd-harmonics) whistling CQ soon, Son!!

FWIW: go to the http://costadelsolcondo.com site and click on the new pix link - The "old" Shack there now looks like it should have!! .... ..

Console still yours if ya want it..

161 to y'all! (73+88) ;-)

Dad

Sweet set up

Keep up the Good Work...Dad, I know mom apperciates it after 40 years Hi, Hi, and just think... keeps the Grandkids out of the rigs....

73 ..Ray KB4OMO

 

[hoser147]

Nice setup you can keep everything almost in the roll top dust free. Looks Great all the way around.A+++.......................Hoser147

 

[tprmutch]

I Take It That Your Not Married Lol

 

[rafale01010]

your shack

w4nov
Nice setup.how many radios do u have cause that is a hefty amount i tell ya. i wish i had half that many.

 

[N1XDS]

Nice Radio's! Out of curosity what are the red push buttons on that black switch box?

 

[Net_Watchman]

Cool setup

Very nice and compact - Wish mine looked as good!
(Maybe I'll go buy a desk!! )
NW

 

[WouffHong]

Push Buttons

That's a set of buttons for automatic message texts in my CW paddle-Keyer.. ;-)
Tom

Nice Radio's! Out of curosity what are the red push buttons on that black switch box?

 

[CLTX11]

Looks good, nice variety of radios

 

[CanadianGP]

I have the exact same desk but mine is full of PC gear instead of radio gear.

 

[DOH6713]

Radios?

Ok so I'm going to ask an honest "I'm actually curios" question. So please those RR forum hawks don't start ANOTHER instigative thread, it seems subscribers and especially admin feen to do so. What is the point of all those radios? I see people with shacks and cars bombarded with radios and I've always wondered what are they listening to? Wont a couple of scanners and maybe a ham radio do it all?

 

[stevolene]

you must be a millionaire, nice set up and gear

 

[af5rn]

Ok so I'm going to ask an honest "I'm actually curios" question. So please those RR forum hawks don't start ANOTHER instigative thread, it seems subscribers and especially admin feen to do so. What is the point of all those radios? I see people with shacks and cars bombarded with radios and I've always wondered what are they listening to? Wont a couple of scanners and maybe a ham radio do it all?

It's a fair question. I can see how someone not in an urban megaplex would not conceive of such a need, but I can assure you that there are common situations that would require an elaborate set-up just for scanning.

Heck, I don't even have any ham or SWL gear currently, and it still takes about six scanners to effectively monitor the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And that's only monitoring fire, media, and aeromedical, no police. Come a Friday and Saturday night, all the agencies get pretty busy, and just one or two scanners won't be able to keep up with Dallas alone, much less Fort Worth and the 7 county surrounding area too. Try to pack all that into one scanner, and you'll constantly miss "the big one" while your scanner is locked up on an "assist invalid" run by some small town VFD.

Of course, trunking has increased the need for multiple scanners, because trunking systems scan so slowly that entire runs have been dispatched before your scanner gets back through the list to that system. Fifteen years ago, you only had to have maybe twenty conventional channels in your scanner to hear ninety-percent of all the fire tones in a seven county area. Not anymore. Almost all of those conventional "tone out" channels are gone now, and you're stuck trying to scan through fifteen busy, multi-agency trunking systems just to catch anything.

To effectively catch the big ones, I have to use four trunking scanners set to fire channels, one for monitoring either the police of the area I am currently travelling in or the fire ops channels of whatever incident I am focused on, and a conventional scanner scanning about 75 fire channels, mutual aid channels, aeromed channels and the Civil Air Patrol. Throw a weather watch into the mix, and suddenly I have to fire up the 2m and another conventional scanner too.

No, they're not all squawking at once as some suggest. Usually there are no more than two radios squawking at the same time because the systems on the others are idle. But again, if you try and depend on two scanners to do the work of six, you're going to miss a LOT. No big deal to a hobbyist, but missed runs equal lost $$ to a news chaser.

Of course, a lot of the high occupancy shacks I see here aren't guys that think they need a bunch of scanners at once. They're just guys who keep buying the latest models and never getting rid of the old ones, lol.

 

[DOH6713]

It's a fair question. I can see how someone not in an urban megaplex would not conceive of such a need, but I can assure you that there are common situations that would require an elaborate set-up just for scanning.

Heck, I don't even have any ham or SWL gear currently, and it still takes about six scanners to effectively monitor the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And that's only monitoring fire, media, and aeromedical, no police. Come a Friday and Saturday night, all the agencies get pretty busy, and just one or two scanners won't be able to keep up with Dallas alone, much less Fort Worth and the 7 county surrounding area too. Try to pack all that into one scanner, and you'll constantly miss "the big one" while your scanner is locked up on an "assist invalid" run by some small town VFD.

To effectively catch the big ones, I have to use four trunking scanners set to fire channels, one for monitoring either the police of the area I am currently travelling in or the fire ops channels of whatever incident I am focused on, and a conventional scanner scanning about 75 fire channels, mutual aid channels, aeromed channels and the Civil Air Patrol. Throw a weather watch into the mix, and suddenly I have to fire up the 2m and another conventional scanner too.

No, they're not all squawking at once as some suggest. Usually there are no more than two radios squawking at the same time because the systems on the others are idle. But again, if you try and depend on two scanners to do the work of six, you're going to miss a LOT. No big deal to a hobbyist, but missed runs equal lost $$ to a news chaser.

Of course, a lot of the high occupancy shacks I see here aren't guys that think they need a bunch of scanners at once. They're just guys who keep buying the latest models and never getting rid of the old ones, lol.

Makes sense. It is hard to get rid of "old" but still working and good equipment lol. I guess living in a metro area would require alot of multiple platforms to monitor and espically in the Metro Plex, hell it seems like every other agency is on a different system. I guess you would have to be a pretty good multitasker todo so, and from the looks of things on here there alot of people with ADD or perfect multitasking capabilities, sorta like a playground for those with ADD lol. Maybe that why i enjoy it so much . Thanks

 

[mkh]

It can get confusing sometimes listening to multiple radios.

My normal setup has a scanner for fire/police and I set my VX-170 to receive the police dispatch zone that I live it. When I'm working HF I keep the 2m base monitoring the local repeater and the other way around when working 2m.

I need to come up with an easy way to adjust the volume on all of the radios when something interesting happens.

 

[DOH6713]

I need to come up with an easy way to adjust the volume on all of the radios when something interesting happens.

Try a Mixing console, doesnt have to be a Martin or anything fancy, and use a few monitors. You can label and assign each pod to a different radio.