right today we're taking 30 something feet of wire a re-wireless a rewireable plug
block three six-way extensions going on a wall here then in this box
we're gonna make a maze filter you have to sometimes go with what you've got okay so
what we've got in this room here is we're on a 20 amp spur so there's a tiny little fuse box off the
main box there's our cds everywhere in this chain i want to miss out the boxes over by wendy's desk
actually and we're going to run a wire from the 32 amp breaker so this spare plug here the office and
me the shack are going gonna be on two different circuits so anything connected in my world will
come down a 20 amp line through the wall here off that plug point to here but it does mean i
can condition that mains with these couple of big ferrites and have everything on the one circuit
right well i can see it it's uh well it's dark in there need to somehow see if the wire will
go through on its own or do we oh look i've got a little six mil bar here you know i've completely
totaled this up is there an easy way of doing this just stick it in the bloody vice or something i
need it's when you need an assistant and it should just go through where we're about to find out
i didn't work right less tape i think this might be better we got it you got it there it is so
occur to me i haven't explained why a ferrite wrapped around a mains cable why why am i doing
that right so i couldn't get my words out so i i emailed james i said why am i doing this what do i
what do i tell the guys in youtube land he said if you want a very very simplified one-liner
and that's what i'm after really the ferrite essentially acts where did i put it oh there
we go the ferrite essentially acts like a sponge and absorbs the unwanted interference
on the line and that's why we're doing it i'll put a link to a couple other youtube videos below
if you want the really in-depth version of that i've just said to james don't worry that's perfect
hey
i can only get three turns on these so i think we'll do is fit another one or two or three
so we've got the best sponge we can get well i think that's about best i can do it i'll just
clip them to the wall you see and then we'll come up to the four-way socket on the wall
i think i'm just going to drill out the keyholes all the way through the other side
good i'll put these on the wrong plum in place
so we're coming out the wall here haven't obviously fitted
plug on the angel i don't know i'll fit that down here shove the remaining down the wall
so we've got about two or three meters spare here there's lucky having his lunch hello locks
coming all along here nice and neat made of a bit of mess we'll get the vacuum out in a
minute and that is where the whole shack is going to be connected to the maze filtering there will
put a ton more filtering along here because what we don't want is mains borne crud coming through
so we might as well stop it in the mains here apparently it's best practice and uh it can assist
i must say that for ham radio use i actually don't like trunking but i'm only going to put the mains
cable through this kind of permanently and i just wanted to tidy it out of the way if you absolutely
trunk everything right inevitably in a few months you'll need to take one out you go don't want that
anymore i want it over here all right so all the trunking you know you peel the top off the
trunking or your usb lines and everything kind of goes wrong and then your trunking's always
ms forever the best just to put all your plug points at bench height and get everything off
the floor in the first place that's what we're doing here oh someone's on the phone for me
i don't want com people coming along switching off my gear so we'll put a label on him and
then eventually the next year we'll actually be able to have a proper tidy up oh actually got
red light good we're live it's supposed to have face tracking on this hello hello are you working
is your face tracking working there's only one problem when you rebuild your shack
you got to plug it all back together again i've got to go home and get a power supply and i've
got one of those little 12 volt distribution things because i want to be able to power
all the odds and ends most of it is it says 12 volts here it comes with these little walmarts
well that's no good because they're probably kicking out some noise as well
anyway i'm much happier because this desk has never been designed with radios in mind you
know where am i putting everything i just plonked everything down and got on with
it but now i'll actually be able to enjoy my hobby getting on friday mornings run the net
do a bit of dxing and who knows where that'll take us in the meantime trust you've had a good
time a little bit of entertainment some education as well i'll see you in the next one bye for now