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I rebuilt my little Farm. Much neater now. *PICS!*

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: RussianSoldier
I'm going to try to get some pictures of my setup up. The headend room alone has its own air filtration, and the temperature fluctuates between about 55 - 72 F. Its so loud that it's extremely hard to hear a phone ring...
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:Q Let's see!
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I'll also try to get a recording...
 
Originally posted by: RaySun2Be
😎 Looks great! :thumbsup:

I spent Memorial Day cleaning up the rats nest of my computer desk and moving things around. Between the 2 port KVM switch & cables, the 5 port switch & cables, the power cords, printer & scanner cables, speaker/subwoofer cables, phone line, ups that had been added over time, it was a huge mess. Plus the PC had to be placed in where the legs go, so there wasn't much room.

Pulled all cables, cords, and everything out, moved the desk out so I could remove the bottom shelf on one side, put the desk back, then moved the PC where the shelf was. And in order to move the PC there, I had to get the floppy drive working and hook up the front side USB ports so the daughter doesn't have to pull the PC out to hook up her USB card reader. Then cleaned everything up and tied the cables up. So much nicer and we have a lot more leg room. 😀

I should have taken "before" pics. I'll try to post some "after" pics once I get all the rest of the desk cleaned up. 🙂
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ROFL!!! That's pretty much what I just went thru!!! You gotta move this...but all the wires run behind that...which is plugged into this other thing...and you can't move any of it b/c the wires are all too short. :roll: 😀 I feel your pain, man.

Please take pics and share. I like pics. 🙂
 
Nice setups!

Here's what mine looked like right after I finished putting it all back together.

Full view

Rack

Desk

My desk really had glass tops but they just didn't cut it and certianly wouldn't handle the 21" monitor so I made the bottom two desktops and got my wife to polyurethane them. She thought I was crazy but I managed to get rid of one of the two desks I had all this on when it was finished. She hates the rack though:roll:
 
Great pics guys! I love seeing what other people have done with their stuff. 🙂

RussianSoldier: That's not your house, I assume. Or is it? :Q Wow....just wow. You must do about 50 WUs a DAY.

HayHauler: That looks like a 12V Bench Power Supply in your rack. What's it for?

ICXRa: I think the rack rocks. Cool desk too.

I think I'm gonna change this thread title a bit. 😀
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD

HayHauler: That looks like a 12V Bench Power Supply in your rack. What's it for?


It is a 30amp 12volt pwr supply. The thing in front of it is a ham radio and a ham
radio TNC, (radio modem). I run a Linux DX Cluster. This system exchanges short
data strings back and forth from the internet to users connected to my cluster
via radio. The linux box is the one on the right at the top.. The small black box
on top of the box with all of the lights on it (TNC) is a ham radio, tuned to 144.930 mhz.
www.dxcluster.org is the software that I am running.

Ok, I'm done.
Hay
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Originally posted by: HayHauler
Originally posted by: MichaelD

HayHauler: That looks like a 12V Bench Power Supply in your rack. What's it for?


It is a 30amp 12volt pwr supply. The thing in front of it is a ham radio and a ham
radio TNC, (radio modem). I run a Linux DX Cluster. This system exchanges short
data strings back and forth from the internet to users connected to my cluster
via radio. The linux box is the one on the right at the top.. The small black box
on top of the box with all of the lights on it (TNC) is a ham radio, tuned to 144.930 mhz.
www.dxcluster.org is the software that I am running.

Ok, I'm done.
Hay
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That is some cool stuff! Where do those radio broadcasts go? Overseas? This is very interesting.
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No, just local guys. The data that is exchanged is data about contacts made between 2 ham operators.
Local hams in my area are watching the data to see if one of the hams is in a country that he needs to
talk to for any number of awards that are available.


Hay
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Originally posted by: HayHauler
No, just local guys. The data that is exchanged is data about contacts made between 2 ham operators.
Local hams in my area are watching the data to see if one of the hams is in a country that he needs to
talk to for any number of awards that are available.


Hay
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Do you do that whole "Postcard exchange thing?" I used to know this guy who had an amature ham license; yet he had a 100-foot retractable antenna in his yard. 😀 He had a NICE radio setup too.

He'd talk to people on the other side of the world, depending on cloud condtitions....that whole "radio waves bouncing" thing.
 
Do you do that whole "Postcard exchange thing?" I used to know this guy who had an amature ham license; yet he had a 100-foot retractable antenna in his yard. 😀 He had a NICE radio setup too.

He'd talk to people on the other side of the world, depending on cloud condtitions....that whole "radio waves bouncing" thing.
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Feel like I have to weigh in here for a minute since the thread has gone OT to ham radio... I'm a ham, in fact my account name kb3edk is my FCC license 🙂 I use it for an account on every website I go to because it's so random I know nobody else will have it!

But as for my radio, yeah I don't talk too much about my other "rig", it's a fairly modest 50 watt FM portable on 144-148 MHz, better known as "2 meter". Most people set those up in their cars like a CB but it's fairly easy to make into a base station as well. The range is usually fairly short (20 miles or so) although when atmospheric anomalies pick up it gets much longer... once I "DXed" (contacted) someone up in the Hamptons on Long Island, over 100 miles away. We traded postcards, it was cool.

Unfortunately I moved to a different 'burb of Philly down along the Schuylkill River last year and the reception is awful here so the rig is back in storage. But it's a great hobby, I keep coming back to it off and on over the years. One of the most hardcore geek pursuits available, if you ask me 😉

"73"
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-Adam in Philly
Athlon 64 FX-51@2.4 GHz/1.625vcore - ASUS SK8V
Liquid cooling by Koolance
 
Roger that Adam. I live in a deed restricted neighborhood, so all of my antennas for HF and VHF/UHF work are in the attic, or on the fence in the back yard. I exchange post cards(called QSL Cards) with some of the DX contacts. Mostly for emergency tho. I have them in the house, in all of the cars, run the K5PLD-2 DX Cluster(2 meter), and have a cross bander in the garage for HT work around the house.

HayHauler
K5JTJ
 
HayHauler and kb3edk,

That's cool stuff. 🙂 It thrilling to talk to someone so far away on a HAM radio or CB. I have a CB in my truck. It's a Uniden LTWPC78. Regular 40-channel w/weatherbands, which comes in very handy when you live in tornado alley. :roll:

I have a 4-foot Firestik II on my truck PIC.

But it's too tall to fit in my garage and taking the antenna off everyday is a PITA, so right now the antenna is stowed in the back of the truck and the CB is unplugged. I need to get a shorty 2-footer, but haven't really looked much.

I've got a pic of the radio somewhere...
 
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