N9JIG Shack Redux

[W8OSP]

Nice shack rich!!

 

[bluesman905]

Yep.....balancing handhelds on a shelf looks a little funky for safety

Hey Rich,

The shack is nice and clean, looks great and awesome job on the wires.
P.S You need one of my handheld scanner stands for those portables haha just kidding!.
Take care

 

[SCPD]

I think its nice...makes me want to take pictures of my stuff....


Rich...see you on GMRS?

 

[cellblock776]

I don't have pictures of the car yet (05 Oddysey) but it has a BC796 with a ScannerMaster remote head kit. The head is velcro'd to the top of the dashboard, the cable comes in thru the glove box and the radio itself is under the passenger seat. I also have a Kenwood TD-700 dual bander there as well.

Great looking Home Shack. Really looking forward to seeing the Mobile photos in here when you post them.

 

[bluesman905]

Nice selection of radios you have!

 

[ccx]

I like your shelving ideas.

 

[maddogdecker]

I'm just in shock. I thought I had alot. Mine is noting compared to yours

 

[N9JIG]

I like your shelving ideas.

The white shelves are "Elfa" brand, carried by The Container Store. There is a similar style available at Menards type places that is less expensive but they don't have desktops or some of the accessories Elfa provides.

The desktops from Elfa are 54 inches wide by 24 deep and is 1 inch thick, made of heavy pressboard with hard white laminate. The shelves come in 24 and 30 widths and 8, 12 and 16 inch deep of 3/4 inch thicknesses, with the same hard white laminate. The 30 and 24 inch shelves add up to the same 54 inch widths as the desktops, so you use 3 vertical risers that hang from a bracket mounted to a joist at the ceiling edge. There actually is nothing mounted to the walls, the whole shebang hanges from a steel bracket. It is strong enough for me to sit on, and I ain't little!

The verticals are dual track enameled steel as are the shelf and desk brackets. The also make legs etc. so you can free-stand the desktops if you wish, or even use matching file cabinets for desktop supports.

The desk the radios are on is a typical Office Max - put-it-together-yourself special that I bought specifically for the riser. The keyboard tray is large enough for 2 keyboards.

Since i took these photos last month we installed hardwood floors in our house, so I have actually taken down and re-installed my entire radio desk. While the same stuff is there, it has been rearranged a bit. I will take photos soon!

 

[KD4REL]

Scanners

And MY wife sad "I" had too many radios!!!

You don't need to "SCAN"... you have enough radios to park each radio on a channel and leave it there. Must get pretty noisy in there when all the radios are sounding at the same time!

 

[N9JIG]

And MY wife sad "I" had too many radios!!!

You don't need to "SCAN"... you have enough radios to park each radio on a channel and leave it there. Must get pretty noisy in there when all the radios are sounding at the same time!

Well, my wife is deaf (really!) so the radios never bothers her!

Being a dispatcher in my former life, then 20 some odd years pushing a squad car and now the guy running the 9-1-1 Center, as well as 35 years of listening to radios I am pretty adept at listening to multiple audio streams.

I use the 2052 to listen to the local County EDACS system, the 796 to listen to a local digital system, one 780 for railroad stuff, another for Fire stuff and the third for Police. One of the GM300's and Plecton's and Minitors are all set up on local fire channels for tone alerting. The other GM300 set (UHF and VHF) are set up on GMRS and a few local ham channels and the IC-2800 is also used on 2M and 440.

 

[kyguy]

very nice setup !! my wife said mine should look like that (clean + organized), so i said ok ill go buy me some more radios!!!