The final (in as much as anything in this hobby is ever really final) piece for making the radio end of my RemoteRig setup neat and tidy arrived today, a RIGrunner DC power panel.

I have a tabletop 19 inch rack, a couple of shelves for it and plug strip with individually switched outlets. I will place into this rack all the equipment out in the workshop, the IC-706mkIIg, IT-100 tuner and RemoteRig.

I also hope to put my ethernet switch and VeraLite home automation controller in there as well, though such close proximity to the transmitters might be an issue for those devices.

This panel is kinda overkill for the three devices run off the one power supply (really only two since the tuner is powered from it’s connector to the radio) but I am almost certain that the VeraLite runs on a 12V supply and it’s quite likely that the ethernet switch does, too.

Ironically, the toughest part of this project may be moving the station ground rod. The rack will be installed on a countertop that is on the other side of a door from where the current location is. To keep the ground wire short, it would make the most sense to pull the 8 foot ground rod and move it to the other side of the door as well. While I have a great tool for pulling with adequate force to remove the ground rod, it is driven really low to the surface and I will need to adapt a chain or some such to get it started. Plus, it’s really close the wall.