KZ4IM Shack with new FlexRadio 6400 ham transceiver

[gordonz]

Equipment:

Rack (top to bottom)
- Kenwood TH-D74A 2m, 1.25m & 70cm D-Star portable radio
- Anytone AT-D868UV 2m & 70cm DMR portable radio
- FlexRadio 6400 160m-6m SDR transceiver
- Behringer EuroRack Pro audio mixer (not currently used, but looks impressive)
- Uniden SDS200 and Uniden BCD536HP
- MFJ-974HB balanced line antenna tuner for attic doublet
- MFJ-212 Match Maker to tune attic doublet for optimized shortwave broadcast receiving
- JetStream 25 amp power supply
- RCA antenna rotator for Wellbrook FLX1530LN receiving loop antenna
- power meter (blue) for monitoring draw on power supply
- push button switch on lower left controls Wellbrook loop antenna power

Desk
- 2019 Mac Mini 16GB memory, 1TB SSD (behind left displays)
- DisplayLink dual port display adapter (behind displays)
- four ASUS 22" HD displays
- Dell AC511 USB sound bar
- Hercules Starlight midi controller to control FlexRadio
- elgato Stream Deck XL also for controlling FlexRadio
- Apple Magic Trackpad
- Logitech K750 solar keyboard
- Logitech M570 thumball

Software Displayed
- PSK Reporter in web browser to display who is receiving my signal (top left)
- MacLoggerDX for logging contacts (top right)
- SmartSDR for controlling FlexRadio (bottom left)
- WSJT-X for FT8 digital communications (bottom right)
- JT-Bridge helper for FT8 signals (bottom right)

 

[N9JIG]

Looks great!

 

[iowajm780]

Wow!. That is an impressive setup and nice and tidy. Nice job!.

 

[commscanaus]

A magnificent job!
That is very compact and neat with quite a bit of equipment installed.
Watched a Youtube presentation by the owner of Flex Radio detailing the evolution of his products.
Flex certainly are very nice equipment.
Would like to get one for use as a remote station.

Commscanaus.

 

[K4EET]

Very impressive indeed! You have done a great job on human factors engineering of the arrangement with the exception of the two handhelds on top of the rack enclosure. That’s a stretch to reach from the sitting position… 🤣 Just ribbing you, of course. I love it! Wanna come over and redo my setup? I’m about 600 miles north of you… 😂

 

[k0pwo]

Very very nice station!

 

[gordonz]

Very impressive indeed! You have done a great job on human factors engineering of the arrangement with the exception of the two handhelds on top of the rack enclosure. That’s a stretch to reach from the sitting position… 🤣 Just ribbing you, of course. I love it! Wanna come over and redo my setup? I’m about 600 miles north of you… 😂

Are you paying travel expenses?

 

[gordonz]

These are the monitor/computer stands I built out of iron pipe. I tried the various multi-monitor VESA stands but they are impossible to lock down tight. Especially because there is no way to tighten the landscape/portrait rotation mechanism. Every time I bumped a monitor or the cleaning lady cleaned the monitors would end up askew. It was a real PITA to get them back in place. These stands were a fun project and solved the problem. You would break the monitor before making it budge.

 

[N9JIG]

These are the monitor/computer stands I built out of iron pipe. I tried the various multi-monitor VESA stands but they are impossible to lock down tight. Especially because there is no way to tighten the landscape/portrait rotation mechanism. Every time I bumped a monitor or the cleaning lady cleaned the monitors would end up askew. It was a real PITA to get them back in place. These stands were a fun project and solved the problem. You would break the monitor before making it budge.

I had exactly the same issue here, I could never get them to stay aligned after spending a half hour getting them. My kid said he found some monitor mounts that lock down online but he cannot find the link now, if he does I will post it.

 

[K4EET]

Are you paying travel expenses?
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