Jeff,
Those perf-boards and? a PL decoder here and a PL decoder there get away from you.
I am rebuilding the Holland (Mi) repeater systems. New cabinet and some nice Quantars and MTR-2000's. A Doug Hall voter and a JPS voter, and I can switch between them.
?But you still need those little boards. So I had a leftover 2 ru (3.5") rack drawer. Inside the drawer, I put two DIN rails, and I mount everything on DIN plates. That way I can pull any board out if need be. I have several captive wire, smaller gauge barrier strips up on 1" standoffs that everything inside and outside goes to. I have four 1" holes in the back with those nice plastic grommets. 1" in from those holes are again, 1" standoffs that have cable ties, so all cables get tied down. Oh, due to 50 years of broadcast engineering "experiences", I made sure to leave loops on all cables going in this drawer so when I pull the drawer out, it can!
What is nice about this is that there is room for many small boards, yet there are no hanging chads anyplace. Took about 3 hours of labor to drill up all the mounts, but now, all is well.
Tom K8TB
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On 11/18/2022 2:35 PM, Jeff DePolo WN3A wrote:
The other thing that I absolutely abhor is to see something like perf boards, relays, dead-bug components, etc. gimmicked up to cure logic level incompatibilities, or tailor audio levels, or add RC delays, or whatever, especially when they're dangling off the back of equipment like a voter or repeater chassis backplane. I'm sure you know the kind of hackery I'm talking about which, fortunately, in the more-modern digital age has become less and less of a problem in commercial realms than it once was, but still seems to live on in the hammy world.
--- Jeff WN3A
