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Very cool. Great look behind the scenes.

Well-Done!! Nice simple set up which suits you.

Nice layout. Much more organized than I am.

Nice to see your set up .

I love the organization of your shack! Thanks Hayden

Looks great Hayden. Always a work in progress. Thanks for sharing.

Just in the process of organising my shed atm; Over the years I've collected so much junk it amazes me trying to sort and categorize things. I'd love to cull a few things as I have shelves full of electrical and electronic parts. Also why I force myself not to go to hamfests as I end up with more junk lol

That's about as good as it gets, Hayden. Good Luck & Good DX , Al K3ZE

Nice..........

Thank you, I enjoy videos like this, I seem to get new useful information from them. My shack seems to be a work in progress all the time. I appreciate your videos and content. 73 W8VHS

Electric foot warmer pocket for both feet, was the best shack upgrade I've made.

Nice vid Hayden, busily finishing off my own shack in our family garage; a space I share with my wife's jewelry projects and my two daughters ad hoc projects. No space for vehicles hi hi. I like your Shure mic setup, have plans for one of these as well. I also agree that you need a separate workbench for projects/repairs etc as it is nice to be able to leave 'stuff' out so that you can work on it the next day etc without packing it away and losing your train of thought/progress. Much easier to carry on where you left off.

Nice shack man!

This is great. My shack changes every so many months as I make major life changes. I could get away with a shack evolution series I bet. Keep it coming!

I like your setup. Clean and simple. I have two 2ft x 4ft work tables that my dad built. I'm going to weld some extensions up this fall.

すばらしいシャックですね。QSOできることたのしみにしています。７３　JL１MMM

Looks like a great shack! I'm hoping to have a decent shack one day, for now I'm stuck in an apartment with just DMR handhelds. Hopefully we find a house soon and start building though!

Had a win a few weeks ago. I scored 2 Rittal 12RU rack cabinets free of charge. Plan is to buy a 2.4 x 0.9m bench top from Bunnings and use the rack units as 'legs' while housing the linear and and it's PS along with an Apache Labs Anan 7000 mk2 when it eventually arrives. The other will house a network switch, NAS and XR air 12 mixer and a PC. The mixer will unify audio from various radios and PC to a set of speakers. Still waiting after 2 years for the inspiration to clear out the spare room to make it all happen ;) BTW if you are considering the 7610 then you may find the Anan interesting for similar money. Keep the 7300 for the times you feel the urge to twiddle some knobs.

Looks great, very tidy and practical. I can't see my bench or floorspace, lol. I probably have a few thousand locks to relocate or sell to buy your 7300. 😄

There is a perfect shack, but it involved an unlimited budget, a huge warehouse sized space, and multiple of every ham radio products ever made, making every mode/radio/antenna/ect. only a walk(or scooter ride) away from anywhere else in the shack.

Very nice shack. Thank you for showing all the little things you have and use in the shack rather than "this is my radio" videos. I have what my gf calls gadgets, they are not essential to radio, but they are useful to have in the shack or just plain fun. Would like to see more videos on the little things people have in their shack that makes them comfortable.

Looks awesome Hayden. My shack is in the garage and it has become over grown with junk and packing boxes. 👍

Very nice setup. I’m interested in the mic

Omg, Hayden & thanks for such a great and imaginative video which is extremely helpful!. Thanks so much for this extremely helpful video showing your really beautiful setup as I'm always open to ideas to make a more permanent setup for my own station. Beautiful setup and really love the ideas and thought you had put into getting it together. Well done!. It's also a huge help to newbie (and not so newbie!) hams to give them great ideas. Definitely appreciate also the links to the lights & the items in your shack as they are likely low RF noise lights and items which is always a huge gotcha for us hams when we see a pretty LED light only for it to make a ruckus in RF hash. Great & very smart buying decisions I can see all round, Weller great soldering station definitely good move, love the foot switch, super smart move picking a USB & XLR mike as 3.5mm audio jacks are so noisy & that camera image on your videos looks outstanding. Those Green ESD mats are also fantastic. Remember Jaycar & Altronics stocking that PSU but couldn't afford it at the time so bought a Yaesu linear PSU last year even though its well over spec for the rigs I now run ie 705 lol but when I get an amp it should be capable & give me both base station QRO & portable ops flexibility via a similar VK3FS pelican case setup. Unfortunately, don't have the space nor budget as yet for a 7300. Hopefully when my left ankle completely heals from its fracture (only started slowly walking back on it without the moonboot only a few days ago!) I'll finally clear up the spare room and construct a nice shack and decent antenna feed point but that's still likely a few months away now. Curious, what sort of scope/CRO and model do you have as it looks much like a digital Tektronix 2ch model ?. Curious about that small iPad looking device in the middle of the desk with all the icons. Also, how do you find the chair comfort especially over longer periods?. If you could please do a follow-up also showing the antenna feeds from the radio & how you have setup to feed your antennas this would be so appreciative. Wishing you also best of luck in procuring the 7610 & you're clever & resourceful enough to obtain it!

tidy shack there Hayden mines no where near that tidy too many gadgets & mointors in mine, regards the ic 7610 i have had mine getting on for 3 years YOU will NOT be disappointed fantastic radio excellent rx&tx :)

Hey Hayden, what antenna do you use with your 7300? Cheers 73 Dan VK3NDG

Great article! That looks like a GE Mastr II chassis in your repeater. Where does on find crystals for these today with all of the synthesied stuff out there?

Hi Nice video What's that shortcut keyboard with several keys on it? Tks 73 de CT2HUU

Not an ESD mat for doing all the sensitive electronics work?

Can you please verify that the link you provided for the heil adaptor for icom is the correct one. Heil makes at least two and they are different.

Are you an electrical engineer, Hayden?

Hey Hayden, do I see an OnlyHans sticker?!

My shack was good, until my son needed a computer.... he is in there most days, moans If I am 🤣 kitchen table works well.... Or I go /m or /p