I've recently add a pair of ergotron LCD desk monitor brackets to my SO2R setup
:
http://www.ergotron.com/tabid/65/PRDID/351/language/en-GB/default.aspx
.......the best non-radio accessory I've added to my station in a long while!
Just be aware, if using a domestic PC monitor check there's a VESA plate fixing
on the rear , many of the newer 'home PC monitors' don't have them (in the UK
at least).
Steve
GW4BLE
Sent from my iPhone 5S
> On 17 Mar 2014, at 08:29, Dick Flanagan <dick@k7vc.com> wrote:
>
> I need help from the Masters.
>
> I am in the planning stages of a SO2R station. The center piece will be the
> two radios and two LED computer displays above the radios. The displays will
> be side-by-side and supporting all of the contesting/logging/propagation
> windows driven by one central contesting computer. I could be talked into
> having two computers--one for each display--but I would appreciate if that
> discussion were held another day.
>
> Today I am looking for assistance in choosing the proper LED display
> terminals. What is the optimal size of these monitors? They can be long and
> skinny or basically square. Has experience shown that one particular screen
> size and/or aspect radio to be better than another in this application? I am
> partial to Samsung, but I can be talked out of that too if appropriate.
>
> The displays will be mounted above the radios slightly above eye level with
> their fronts basically even with the front panel of the radios. No
> wall-mounted monitors here.
>
> Once the displays are chosen, then possible we can wander off into the one
> vs. two computer forest.
>
> So those of you with two terminals displays, let us know what you hate about
> them, what you love, what you would do different. Help me avoid the mistakes
> I am destined to make without your help.
>
> Needless to say, Thank YOU!
>
> --
> Dick Flanagan K7VC
> dick@k7vc.com
>
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