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If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, this might be considered old news, but I wanted to officially share so that anyone who is not on social media, that stumbles across my blog, can come up to speed:-)
A couple weeks back I shared that I finally made a decision on a rig for the shack, and I cut the hole in the wall where it would poke through (the wall of my operating position is about 4 feet from the back wall of the actual room, so that I can access the back of the equipment easily.)
A couple weeks back I shared that I finally made a decision on a rig for the shack, and I cut the hole in the wall where it would poke through (the wall of my operating position is about 4 feet from the back wall of the actual room, so that I can access the back of the equipment easily.)
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In the last several weeks, I finally got to a couple things to "finish off" this little piece of the project. Namely, I made a face frame, sized perfectly for the rig, to go around the opening where the radio sticks through, and I also added a couple other useful tidbits:
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The first was one of these little items, so that I could have a full-time voltage display, along with some quick power-access for phone and tablet charging, right at the operating position.
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The second thing I added while I was making some dust was one of these decorator pass-through plates, so that things like my paddles, the keypad for the rig, etc. could have their cables run to the back of the rig, while keeping a cleaner look than just a hole, or jamming them under the body of the rig.
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I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!
As you look at the pictures, if you're wondering why the rig slightly off-center, that is actually for 2 very purposeful reasons:
- Most importantly - I wanted the big knob on the radio to land where my arm and hand naturally landed as I sat at the desk, so that I wouldn't have to be doing some kind of weird reach-around past my keyboard to get to the radio controls :-P
- At some point in the not to distant future I plan on adding a VHF/UHF rig, and some other accessories that will "balance" the feel of it.
As a final note, for those who wonder where the "mess" is kept (some twitter folks pointed out that every ham is obliged to have a messy workbench) it is actually on the small workbench space that is just behind me and to my right, as I sit at the operating position.
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