Listening/scanning is a huge part of my radio world. Theres always someone out there with something to say! Might be interesting or not, but people are out there.

Thanks for the video from this first time visitor. It is always interesting to see what others have for a shack and layout.

I started with a base station, but moved everything into a hybrid go box. Its all mounted in a 6U flight case on server equipment. Works fine at home, but everything can quickly be tucked in the box to move somewhere else for semi-portable operation. Serves as a nice compromise between a base station and full blown bugout setup. Hope your injury is healing fine. I had a bad back injury last year and it kept me down a few months. I still won't ever be able to ruck like I used too. Hurts my pride some, but we keep moving.

Great looking setup, less is best. 73 and thanks for posting.

I'm digging the shelf addition, Gaston! Nicely done! I think I might have to steal that idea from ya! I'm starting to look at options for remotely operating my FT-991A from the office during my work day! Take care, my friend! 🤠

Digging your setup! Hope you have a speedy recovery.

Nice setup!

I enjoy these short videos on how you do things, thanks.

Dude! I completely agree. Having a radio at my office desk is awesome. Scanning while working is awesome! Even better when you mix hf with vhf/uhf. BTW I get why you want to decrease the height of the shelf, but if you keep at that height (which I like), it becomes scalable for future interests. At the same time if you save the current legs then what I'm saying means nothing.

This is very cool! I'm glad you got the shack moved into the house so it's cooler. Listening is very fun. Hope you heal up and are able to enjoy both portable and shack radio in he near future. 73

I hope you're healed up by now and that your ebike is helping you get further out to explore the Tonto. I have found that knowing when the HF and loca nets are running is helpful too, especially if you might need or want information from other areas near or far.

That is super cool! Perfect shack and great looking too. Hope to see more of it. Good luck with your Anytone. I HATED that radio! Could not get the code plugs to work and after four months and several people helping me, I sold it. Ham is supposed to be fun and it was NOT. Love the channel... been a subscriber for a few years now. GL.

Love the simplicity

I also monitor 146.52 all day while working. All sorts of traffic pop up, including a good number of SOTA, and POTA.

Nice n clean. I like it.

Speedy Recovery!

Cool. Now if you add SDR you can expand your listening capacity.

Good stuff

So funny to see your 2m call log. I talk to those guys often. Maybe I'll catch you on 520 some time.

3:00 - The down side of being able to monitor the 2m repeaters is you quickly tire of hearing about ingrown toenails, tonight's fried catfish dinner, and yes, even the new antenna that someone just bought. It's sad, but I'm too anti-social even for ham radio. 🙂 Because I don't do a lot of rag chewing and my primary interest is personal emcomm, I have a small and simple shack. I have a three glass shelf entertainment center mounted to the wall behind and to the side of my computer. The top two 15" wide shelves have my FT857D and LDG YT-100 tuner on the top shelf and the FTM-100D, constantly charging FT-70DR and Raspberry Pi on the second shelf. The bottom shelf is a DVD player, at least until I buy more ham gear. :-) I use my PC for JS8, or I can use my monitor with the Raspberry Pi. I have several of the better Baofeng HTs and lots of other miscellaneous ham stuff stored in large 20mm ammo cans under the desk. On the other side of the wall is a 24 foot mast and a Comet GP-6 antenna for 2m and 70cm, and an end fed 85 foot non-resonant antenna strung over the house for HF. My entire shack is powered by a 30 watt solar panel on the roof that charges a LiFePO4 battery under the desk via a DC-DC converter adjusted to 14.2 volts, functioning as a solar charge controller. The small DC-DC converter limits the charging current to a safe level, and even if it didn't, the small solar panel would. The very inexpensive charging system is voltage limited and inherently current limited to avoid over charging. If I played radio more often, I'd scale up the solar panel to two 100 watt panels that I'm not using, a 100+ amp hour LiFePO4 battery, and a 5 amp DC-DC converter.

Nice and clean looking shack! 📻👍🏽

Would be great to see an Anytone 878 video. I picked a couple up and haven't figured them all out just yet.

Ouch. Hope the calf is healing! Got a PT in your area that can dry needle? Had to get that done recently. It does wonders. Nice station set-up.

I can see you making a slide in rack mount to go under the shelf. Before you know it you'll have a power meter and everything all in one tidy spot. I look forward to seeing how this ends up. 🤙🏽

😎Looking good! Sometimes there’s a silver lining when you get sidetracked with an injury, Very interested in hearing more about Anti Field Day 2023....could become an annual event for the Anti Hams to come together!!!

Getting familiar with Fldigi is a good thing, read up on how it’s used in NBEMS. It’s kind of similar to some of the things you’ve shown 3:23 .

Interesting video. Could you please provide a pointer for the furniture legs ? They would be exactly what I need....

Nice Video man! I like how you make your starter pack ham shack set-up. Will be doing the same soon the simplest one just for the sake of air contacts and having a very neat desk. Still on a portable operation here and its kinda hard for me to get on air for proper contacts to reach other hams out there, maybe also due to a tight location right now and unable to fix an antenna for access. Looking forward to contacting you on air soon! de 4H1JCP Manila, Philippines 73

Nice Little ham Shack, !

You know need a noaa antenna and weather system via rf haha. It’s only gonna get bigger

Hope for a speedy recovery! I’ve been mostly a portable operator as well. This year I’ve started building a home QTH and a permanent mobile setup. Nice simple setup. Mine is similar, but usually with a bit of clutter. Could you share what antennas are feeding your shack?

Congratulations, looks good! ‘73

AmRRON runs Contessia 4/250.

Very cool 😎

Not directly radio related but I'm in the process of redoing my shack. I just acquired a Yaesu world map like yours. How did you mount and frame yours? I would like to do the same. Thanks

That’s not a ham shack! At least not like mine - it’s covered in old radios, home brew projects, valuable radio gear, soldering irons, meters, cable etc etc. ;)

Hello Gaston! I see you have a at-d878uv in your shack. I have a 878 my self. I also noticed that you didn't use windows. The CPS software for the 878 is windows only. How do you figure that? Are you using Wine etc, or do you have a windows PC "in the dark"? 73 de LB4EG Helge

Anti-FD...bring it! Caffeinated cheers!

Put up some local map .

I’m curious why 14.2 volts Everything I read calls for 13.8 volts? My power supply has a detent at 13.8v for instance.

Do you have an automatic power switch of any kind? Something like a West Mountain Radio EpicPWRGate? That would be perfect! Auto switch to battery if you lose mains and also has a built in pwm solar charge controller! I want one for my shack badly

2:30 256bit encryption? I thought encryption on amateur bands was not permitted?

Where did you get that map from?

Nice setup ,order a gaming chair for your shack, de WK6LE 73