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Flight Cases – Project Write Up

I have replaced and combined the Radio Cabinet and the Radio Bag with flight cases.

The cabinet took up a lot of space and was near impossible to move around due to weight. I can now divide the equipment, and weight, up into several flight cases. Change is frequent and its now a lot easier to move the cases around and modify the configurations etc.

The current three sections are Mesh, Radio and Network. “Mesh” at the top has the AREDN Node and the Raspberry Pi Servers and the Mesh Mikrotik Router. “Radio” in the middle has the SIMOCO radios and the Yeasu FT-857D. “Network” at the bottom has the Main Mikrotik Router, the Dev Servers and the switches.

New Radio Box – Rear – Power Distribution.

Power terminals fitted. The thinking is that Anderson connectors can be disconnected from the PSUs and then plugged in to the battery leads for off grid use.

Going to need some sort of cable management out the back here.

New radio box – Front – Radio Controls.

The mic holder fits quite well here I think. I really like the layout of it all.

Radio Cabinet

This is my home lab / networking playground. The cab hosts various servers, routers and radio equipment.

Replacing my FT-857D Selector Encoder

I have had my Yeasu FT-857D for a long time and the tiny, fragile selector knob had been getting worse over the years until it finally broke off ! Time to replace it.

The replacement selector switch was easily available from Yeasu UK and arrived the next day.

Random Stuffs of Interest To Me

Landrovers, Amateur Radio, Infrastructure Spotting, Abandoned Sites and Technology