Here’s a picture of the first shack. Coax cables from the antenna weren’t long enough to reach my intended destination, so the gear wound up on a table that just barely reached.

This next photo is my favorite. This was when I was in full swing, getting antennas working, figuring out connectors, working on all the interconnections between things. See why I draw those drawings? No way I could figure out what’s going on without them.

I took this last picture this morning. Tidy. Boring. Yawn…

I don’t ever actually touch the radio, since I’m an Internet-controlled radio type guy.  So here’s a picture of the “real” shack — a screenshot of my laptop running TRX-Manager and talking to the radio over the ‘net.

And here’s a detail shot of what’s actually on the screen…

And finally, here’s a screenshot of the power-strip that can be controlled over the Internet — this is a shot of the little web-page that is used to control two outlets.  One can power-cycle the PC that’s hosting the TRX-Manager session and the other can power-cycle the radio’s power supply.

So there you have it.  The meat-space shack, and the cyber-space shack.

link to the post

here instead. It’s a pretty long rant (complete with pictures and diagrams) about the security on the TenTec Omni VII — which I consider pretty weak, given that the device is likely to be put on the public Internet pretty frequently. Consider this the ranting of a deranged mind if you like.