New shack

Last bits for the inside now done.

Office side been done for a while now

Operating bench.
(wooden trim to be fitted, and doors on units)

Vintage side:
(some extra sockets to go in to left of ones on wall)

Modern/Contest:

The operating bench will be painted with multiple layers of polyurethane varnish.

There may be an extra hole drilled in the corner and to the rear on the bench for cables and an earthing 22mm copper pipe will go along the wall to an RF earth outside the shack side.

Two Tinned Tuna Update

The project SM7UCZ finished in Sweden and connected it up.

You can see the extra mod for the extra crystal so the board holds two.

Pictures from SM7UCZ

The power out is about 300mW(ish) we did talk about swapping the 2N2222A for a 2N3866 and a heatsink to pump it up to 1W... perhaps Johnny will do that one day.

Networking and Alarm

Desk in place networking is complete and running

 Started to build the operating bench. Using B&Q kitchen units as supports for the worktop.

The alarm is in too.

Shack extras

I'll have a raspberrypi running  a weather station at the qth and possibly a lightening radar detector.

There should be a HAB SDR running as well to a 70cm antenna so will be able to track operations.

The long in the building multiband SDR and integral PC will be up and running as well with a dedicated RX antenna.

I'll post links as they go online.

The rest of the shack will be populated as time allows but I expect I will have My HRO and R1155 installed rapidly along with a type 45 or type 27 TX and a crystal based 6V6 TX. (ready for G3VTT GQRP valve day in November). The more modern side will consist of an Elecraft K2 and KX3 and assorted bits and bobs  like and SDR cube and a data modem.

Reconnected shack internet

Board stuff a cat food / tuna tin in 5 minutes

First task... consume 1/2 a box of red wine.

Second task... find an unbuilt tuna tin project.

Third task... find the schematic.

Fourth task... let your wife operate a camera and film a couple of you putting in the components...

Yes it did work afterwards, 7.0295 MHz and 7.0393 MHz

I'll ask Johnny SM7UCZ to send me some photos.

Floor is in (half of it anyway ran out of floor tiles)

1st get rid of anything that will make laying the floor difficult. Went around and punched down all the floor board nails.

I confused the tiles sizes... I thought 0.5m? no... 0.5m x 0.5m each so I only bought half what I needed.... but they have started to go down. If Christine ever gets fed up with work could have a job as a carpet fitter, much better at it than I am.

The office side complete looks much better than I thought it might.

Whilst that was going on inside I finshed off few tasks outside.

PIR Door light (will wire up later)

Complete electrics secondary earthing (the trench is to be filled to about 3" below the pipe join.