Here is the first run of pics. First folder has the antenna install pics. The antenna has a RS scanner antenna and the antenna for my LTR base station. Three more will be going up, but that will have to wait until next month. With the current scanner antenna I can pick up Logan County Sheriff's Department which is roughly 40 miles away. I haven't tried anything further away than that yet.
The second folder is the shack itself. Shelves are ordinary Ace Hardware shelving system. I took peg board and cut it to fit using a wood trim stand off that was the same size as the brackets for the shelves. This allowed me to hide all the wires. 1.5X1 cutouts on each side allows the wires to feed through and split off to each side.
Not done: routing all the wires below the bottom shelf. I also have another peg board setup to hide most of that too, but it is leaning against my desk. Also, I have not run my coax into the house yet as I am waiting until I can get to the hardware store to find some electrical junction boxes for the outside and inside. I have determined this to be the best way to run 5 lines of coax that already have connectors on them. I can't stand wires showing everywhere. Looks like a bowl of spaghetti got tossed on the wall.
Not shown: Kenwood TK8180 (with KA-P2 PA mod) and 1 BC350C (both installed in the car, 2 BC350A's (FIL has one on loan), BC785D, BCT7, BC890XLT, BC895XLT, BC560XLT, 4 of the Audiovox GMRS radios, and 2 of the Kenwood TK380's. Most of it because it either has not arrived, has not been unpacked, or in the case of the Kenwoods, employees have them. I also have a base station coming next week for the LTR system I use. I think it is a Kenwood 8180, not sure yet.
What is shown: BCT8, BC580XLT, BC898T, BC400XLT, Pro-2046, Pro-83, Pro-95 X2, Pro-97, Kenwood TK-380, Motorola Regency Hi/Lo Monitoradio/Scanner, Regency Touch M100, Audiovox GMRS X2
I monitor MILAIR since I am 2 miles from Tinker AFB, Eastside Oklahoma County (about 6 small towns east and north of Midwest City), Hefner OKC, Will Rogers OKC, Springlake OKC, Midwest City, KK5FM's repeater, and a few others that stay on scan.
In the car I monitor mostly Hefner division OKC while working. However, I usually run the handhelds for Edmond, Warr Acres, Springlake division OKC, OHP while on the turnpike.
I have the pics of my mobile setup posted in here as well. That was a couple of months ago I think.
Some of the pictures are small and then the next one will be the exact same version but larger. I am too damn tired to go back and try to edit everything or even do a decent webpage for them. Sorry, shoot me.
www.okccsi.com/shack
OKC CSI
The second folder is the shack itself. Shelves are ordinary Ace Hardware shelving system. I took peg board and cut it to fit using a wood trim stand off that was the same size as the brackets for the shelves. This allowed me to hide all the wires. 1.5X1 cutouts on each side allows the wires to feed through and split off to each side.
Not done: routing all the wires below the bottom shelf. I also have another peg board setup to hide most of that too, but it is leaning against my desk. Also, I have not run my coax into the house yet as I am waiting until I can get to the hardware store to find some electrical junction boxes for the outside and inside. I have determined this to be the best way to run 5 lines of coax that already have connectors on them. I can't stand wires showing everywhere. Looks like a bowl of spaghetti got tossed on the wall.
Not shown: Kenwood TK8180 (with KA-P2 PA mod) and 1 BC350C (both installed in the car, 2 BC350A's (FIL has one on loan), BC785D, BCT7, BC890XLT, BC895XLT, BC560XLT, 4 of the Audiovox GMRS radios, and 2 of the Kenwood TK380's. Most of it because it either has not arrived, has not been unpacked, or in the case of the Kenwoods, employees have them. I also have a base station coming next week for the LTR system I use. I think it is a Kenwood 8180, not sure yet.
What is shown: BCT8, BC580XLT, BC898T, BC400XLT, Pro-2046, Pro-83, Pro-95 X2, Pro-97, Kenwood TK-380, Motorola Regency Hi/Lo Monitoradio/Scanner, Regency Touch M100, Audiovox GMRS X2
I monitor MILAIR since I am 2 miles from Tinker AFB, Eastside Oklahoma County (about 6 small towns east and north of Midwest City), Hefner OKC, Will Rogers OKC, Springlake OKC, Midwest City, KK5FM's repeater, and a few others that stay on scan.
In the car I monitor mostly Hefner division OKC while working. However, I usually run the handhelds for Edmond, Warr Acres, Springlake division OKC, OHP while on the turnpike.
I have the pics of my mobile setup posted in here as well. That was a couple of months ago I think.
Some of the pictures are small and then the next one will be the exact same version but larger. I am too damn tired to go back and try to edit everything or even do a decent webpage for them. Sorry, shoot me.
www.okccsi.com/shack
OKC CSI