John,

I see your point if you've got very limited space; just more stuff to 
knock around.  At least the control head for my 480 has a couple of 
different mounting options.  There's a base which has four rubber 
feet, and another one with screw holes in it for mounting in a fixed 
location.  I use the one with the feet because I like being able to 
move the head around the table.  My cables are strung so that it's 
not easy to knock the head off the table, and I haven't broken the 
cable after almost two years.  Do the control heads for the dual band 
radios have any kind of mounting options?  I would think they would have to.

Steve

On Wednesday 10/4/06 13:06 John Miller wrote:
>there is no out of the way with my setup and it's in plain view. It has to
>look kind of decent.
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> > I'm with you, Howard.  I like the idea of putting the radio somewhere
> > out of the way, and placing the control head near the front edge of
> > the operating table.  Then I just sit back, relax, and enjoy the radio.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > On Wednesday 10/4/06 12:25 Howard Kaufman wrote:
> >>I have always been amazed at your insistence to having the control
> >>head connected to the radio in a base station setting, is it just
> >>asthetic prefference?  Is their a practical reason that I haven't thought
> >>of?
> >>
> >>It took me five minutes to fall in love with the freedom of position
> >>both radio and control head to get me to fall in love with the
> >>idea.  Maybe I am missing something practical?
> >>
> >>
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