made out of reclaimed Austrian pine and some other stuff. not mine, but built with and for a friend who was using plywood on sawhorses for years.
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Looking for pictures of homemade radio benches
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Ok, so I built this for my shop as my bench… I changed it a bit, I added shelves to the “hutch” and I slid that farther back to give more room on the bench top. Laid down a static mat, some linoleum tile around the edges and various other “crap”. Not something you’d want to put in your house I don’t guess but for a shop setting, this works great. It’ll hold whatever you put on it too.
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Been working on my radio room /shack my setup will be 50/50 . A slightly modified computer table and some homemade shelving, in my mind it looks good we'll have to see if it actually turns out that good. Ran into a slight problem, the bit i need i apparently lost so in stand still until the hardware store opens Monday. Will post pictures tomorrow, hopefully.
I would say you have definitely maximized your limited space. Good job.
I'm confined to this one little corner. In the pantry/shack 98% pantry 2% shack 
i just got the shelves finished and put up late this afternoon, think it turned out ok. I replaced the shelf with a bigger board and added some extra support to hold the Eagle amplifier, that thing is a tank. I had the board's for the shelves the trim came from the cabinet shop scrap pile down the road.
i just got the shelves finished and put up late this afternoon, think it turned out ok. I replaced the shelf with a bigger board and added some extra support to hold the Eagle amplifier, that thing is a tank. I had the board's for the shelves the trim came from the cabinet shop scrap pile down the road.
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It’s not the size of the “shack”, it’s the size of that hamma, come on!!
I'll post pics of the setup when all of the gear is in place, so a description will have to do for now:
Imagine an upside down J with the bar facing away. Short leg is 160x30" (two solid doors) and long leg is 187x32" Ikea credenza plus countertop set. In the middle is a 60x30" office desk that served as the left side of my old shack. The doors are supported on file cabinets and also have a 4x4 leg plus two heavy duty metal table legs at the end which holds the FL-7000. A 30x30" table with the same metal legs serves as a transition between the office desk and Ikea sections.
Two sets of shelves are mounted atop this, all the way around the setup. They're spaced to give 9.5" of room between top and bottom, and are supported by custom risers (which were an absolute PITA to build).
2x4s screwed to the undersides of the shelves and desktop at the back edges serve both as gussets and as a place to mount AC power strips, ground wires, Rig Runners and cable channels for the PCs.
About those: There will be 16 in total controlling 40 different receivers, transceivers and scanners. Four are dedicated signal-analysis systems. Audio and video routing to and from the radios and PCs is handled by a mix of Extron AV switchers plus a few NCS units.
13 secondary monitors are mounted above the bench: 4ea on the short side and bar of the J, 5 on the other. The last one is switched between a variety of systems while the others are heads-up displays for their radio-control software applications.
3 datacenter-class KVMs interface to all the systems for maintenance purposes. I use a mix of Dell/Avocent SIP-based and older XVGA technologies here.
There's a vintage gear area where a number of my oldies will get rotated in and out, and I'll dedicate a section for CB rigs too. Need to rework a few of them before going back on the air so it'll be RX-only for now on 11M.
Imagine an upside down J with the bar facing away. Short leg is 160x30" (two solid doors) and long leg is 187x32" Ikea credenza plus countertop set. In the middle is a 60x30" office desk that served as the left side of my old shack. The doors are supported on file cabinets and also have a 4x4 leg plus two heavy duty metal table legs at the end which holds the FL-7000. A 30x30" table with the same metal legs serves as a transition between the office desk and Ikea sections.
Two sets of shelves are mounted atop this, all the way around the setup. They're spaced to give 9.5" of room between top and bottom, and are supported by custom risers (which were an absolute PITA to build).
2x4s screwed to the undersides of the shelves and desktop at the back edges serve both as gussets and as a place to mount AC power strips, ground wires, Rig Runners and cable channels for the PCs.
About those: There will be 16 in total controlling 40 different receivers, transceivers and scanners. Four are dedicated signal-analysis systems. Audio and video routing to and from the radios and PCs is handled by a mix of Extron AV switchers plus a few NCS units.
13 secondary monitors are mounted above the bench: 4ea on the short side and bar of the J, 5 on the other. The last one is switched between a variety of systems while the others are heads-up displays for their radio-control software applications.
3 datacenter-class KVMs interface to all the systems for maintenance purposes. I use a mix of Dell/Avocent SIP-based and older XVGA technologies here.
There's a vintage gear area where a number of my oldies will get rotated in and out, and I'll dedicate a section for CB rigs too. Need to rework a few of them before going back on the air so it'll be RX-only for now on 11M.