N4CF ham shack

The ham shack shares space with my home office. The equipment fits nicely on a homemade 10' walnut desk completed in July 2014.

From left-to-right are:

• MFJ-267 dummy load and wattmeter
• Alpha Delta 2B antenna switch on top of the dummy load
• Alinco DM-330MV power supply
• Yamaha CM500 headset with microphone hanging on hook above power supply
• Elecraft KPA500 500-watt solid-state linear amplifier in the left hutch bay
• Elecraft KAT500 auto-tuner under the KPA500
• Above the KPA500 is the shack clock along with a control box to remotely switch antennas from HF to 6 meters
• WinKeyer on the desk under the computer monitor
• Elecraft K4d transceiver to the right of the hutch
• Heil GM5 microphone on a swivel boom clamped to the desk
• A Bencher keyer paddle is conveniently located close to the rig

The deep-space image on the computer monitor is known as Messier 101 in the constellation Ursa Major. Nicknamed the Pinwheel Galaxy, it is a face-on spiral galaxy about 21 million light years from Earth.This is one of many deep-space objects I've photographed in our backyard observatory.

Shack Clock

After struggling for two years with a digital clock that didn't keep good time, I made an analog clock for the shack.

I found a finished piece of ¼" walnut left over from the desk, and cut it to fit snugly between two hutch shelves. I glued on a 3" clock face created in Adobe Illustrator, drilled a center hole, mounted a quartz clock movement, installed hands, and it was complete.

Updated March 27, 2024