[TowerTalk] Shack Ideas

[Larry Alkoff]

I have a similiar setup.
My desk backs up to a closet in a new house
under construction.  The closet is my electronics shop.

I had the carpenters make 3 openings in the wall
in back of the desk for access from the closet.

Two of the openings are essentially windows type
about 20" x 20" starting just below table height.
They will have doors opening into the closet.
The third one is an actual door starting at the floor
but ending at the same head height as the "windows"

It is for access to the grounding panel which begins in the
corner of the operating room.  The desk will be three sided
to work around the corner and I will have just enough room
to go in behind the desk and fiddle with the grounding stuff.

Good luck,
Larry Alkoff N2LA




On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:25:49 -0600, Kevin Hemsley wrote:

>
>I have had a couple of direct questions about my project.  Here is some
>clarification.  My current design is for a new room that has a long "closet"
>in the corner of the room located directly behind the equipment shelves.
>The wall separating the operating "desk" and the "closet" will have open
>"windows" (shelves which extend through the wall) to allow direct access to
>the equipment from behind.  The coax bulkhead/patch panel, grounding, etc.
>will be located inside the "closet".  The closet will have a door on the
>end. I'm still working on the design of the pass-through wall and the custom
>desk.  The idea is to have the equipment set on shelves which extend from
>the operating side of the wall into the closet.  I'm trying to decide it I
>want the equipment to be flush with the wall, or to build a tiered design.
>The operating desk/closet will be about 10 feet long allowing for two
>operator positions.
>
>Here is an attempt at a diagram to demonstrate the concept.
>
>You will need to view this using a fixed font.  If it looks like garbage,
>copy and paste it into notepad and it will appear.
>
>ASCII drawing of Operating Table & Closet (Side View)
>
>                  ============
>               |> || Closet ||
>               |  ||        ||
>     Equipment=|  ||--      ||
>      Shelves  |  ||        ||
>               |> ||--      || <=Outside Wall
>                  ||        ||
> Operating=>  ====||--      ||
>   Table      |   ||        ||
>              |   ||        ||
>              |   ||        ||
>
>The idea is to provide easy access to the equipment from behind, while
>cleaning up the appearance for the XYL.  I keep telling her that beauty is
>in the eye of the beholder, and my operating desk is a work of art, but she
>doesn't buy it.  The room will be fairly long, so I will have room at one
>end for a work bench and my test equipment, and a couch for an occasional
>snooze.  I plan to bring in plenty of power, and the basics of network cable
>and CATV so I can occasionally check on the outside world.  The TV will also
>allow me to view the tower-mounted beam cam.  If anyone has any links to
>shack pics I can use for ideas, I would appreciate it.
>
>Thanks,
>                Kevin
>------------------------------------------------------
>Kevin Hemsley
>Systems Engineer
>Microserv Computer Technologies, Inc.
>kev@ida.net
>KB7TYA
>
>
>
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Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX



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