K4JNY wrote:
>Am getting ready to build a new house and am looking for
>ideas to include in the ham shack.
The best "purpose-built" ham shack I have ever seen is that
of Bill Tynan, W3XO. Bill may not be well known to HF
contesters, but his call will ring a bell among VHF folks
as the holder of 6-meter DXCC #1, President of AMSAT,
and a serious contender in VHF contesting. This is a
SERIOUS radio room!
His floorplan uses the walk-in closet idea to perfection. The
closet is behind the "long" wall in his shack, and is quite
wide -- I'm guessing 6 feet, and as deep as the ham shack
is "wide".
The common wall between the ham shack and the closet is
actually a continuous run of shelves, and Bill's equipment sits
on these shelves (actually *in* the closet) with their front-panels
extending through paneling, into the "ham shack".
The paneling is in horizontal segments, equal in "height" to the
intershelf spacing, so that new equipment can ba accomodated
without replacing a full 4x8 sheet of panel.
On the ham-shack side of the wall, at desktop height, is a nice
full-length piece of counter top, as found in kitchens.
Back-panel (servicing and interconnection) work is a breeze.
Just walk into the closet, and the full "backside" of the complete
station is exposed to access, easy to keep organized, and
hidden from those "un-converted" XYL-types who object to
masses of cables.
73, de Hans, K0HB
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