Josh
Member
When I moved out of my parent's home 5 years ago, I didn't leave without the things I liked best about where I'd lived most of my life, these being the ability to monitor railroad radio comms in the area (South of Detroit MI) and the ability to monitor ATCS radio comms (the radio-based railroad signal systems). I started with a mobile radio, phone patch and laptop, but over the years have evolved to the shown setup, which from very top to bottom include:
Cable modem and Wifi/Router, Kenwood NXR710 base radio (used for scanning/monitoring railroad comms), the Astron rack mount 25 amp power supply, below that is a Motorola GTX900 mobile radio used for listening the CSX BCP frequency (basically a data radio), to the right is a Kenwood NX-700 that used to hold the duty of the NXR, but was retired to backup status, or another monitor radio.
Below that is a shelf that holds the iMics that interface with the rack server underneath and the CriticalRF RoIP interface currently connected to the NXR.
The 1U rack server is an newer Intel processor, with 4GB Ram, running windows 10. It hosts a program for the RoIP interface radio, and a couple ATCS feeds passed through railstream. (the 2nd ATCS radio is a remote... it's in a weatherproof box on the chimney).
Underneath that is a shelf holding some paperwork and other junk, and at the bottom of the rack is a 120v 4 outlet power strip with cutout swtiches... but another surge protector/power strip was necessary..
Does anyone recognize this type of rack from any particular company's radio product? It came with a couple shelves and the power strip/power supply at the bottom. There's a SO239 on the bottom with a short run of RG58 to a PL259 that would have attached possibly to a duplexer, if this was a repeater rack originally. I'm not too sure.. it all fits the bill for my functions, even though the hole pattern leaves a lot to be desired.
Cable modem and Wifi/Router, Kenwood NXR710 base radio (used for scanning/monitoring railroad comms), the Astron rack mount 25 amp power supply, below that is a Motorola GTX900 mobile radio used for listening the CSX BCP frequency (basically a data radio), to the right is a Kenwood NX-700 that used to hold the duty of the NXR, but was retired to backup status, or another monitor radio.
Below that is a shelf that holds the iMics that interface with the rack server underneath and the CriticalRF RoIP interface currently connected to the NXR.
The 1U rack server is an newer Intel processor, with 4GB Ram, running windows 10. It hosts a program for the RoIP interface radio, and a couple ATCS feeds passed through railstream. (the 2nd ATCS radio is a remote... it's in a weatherproof box on the chimney).
Underneath that is a shelf holding some paperwork and other junk, and at the bottom of the rack is a 120v 4 outlet power strip with cutout swtiches... but another surge protector/power strip was necessary..
Does anyone recognize this type of rack from any particular company's radio product? It came with a couple shelves and the power strip/power supply at the bottom. There's a SO239 on the bottom with a short run of RG58 to a PL259 that would have attached possibly to a duplexer, if this was a repeater rack originally. I'm not too sure.. it all fits the bill for my functions, even though the hole pattern leaves a lot to be desired.