[Premium-Rx] Table Top Cabinet

[Albert P. Belle Isle]

At 10:07 AM 3/2/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>I want to buy a table top cabinet for my RX-340 (12.5 inches deep, 5.25
>inches high).  Thinking about the Hammond RCBS style cabinet.  For those
>that have their rack mount receivers in table top cabinets, what do you use?
>
>Paul N. Katz

Paul:

The only size cabinet I found that didn't waste the desktop advantages of 
the 340's size was the smallest-depth standard Euro-size Type 38 cabinet 
from Elma.

http://www.elma.com/files/products/enclosures_and_components/pdfs/19inch_enclosure_type_38_001.pdf 


You'll have to buy the component parts and assemble it, but the resulting 
cabinet is built like a tank with Swiss precision. Not cheap, but very good.

After some difficulty trying to wend my way from web-site description to 
actual order, I ended up dealing with their Northeast office in Columbia, 
MD. A very pleasant lady named Kathy (as I recall from early 2001) helped 
me put together the order(s) by credit card. The phone number is 410-381-8275.

Be sure to include a mounting kit, as all screws are metric.

The resulting cabinet is really desk-top (unlike Ten-Tec's, which I use for 
my Harris) and both less deep and higher quality than the only US-made 
options I was able to find. I stack decoders on top of mine and can easily 
slide the RX340 in and out without disturbing them.

The cabinet is only 12.7" deep, though the 340's handles and knobs protrude 
beyond its front by another 1/2". The feet supplied with it are not as good 
as the heavier-duty screw-onTen-Tec feet, however, so I just substituted 
those (since they had to come off the 340 for it to fit, anyway).


Good listening,
Al
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Location:        42N39, 71W09 (Near Boston, MA)
HF Antennas: 65ft TFD, 45ft T2FD, 28ft vertical, 65ft doublet
HF Receivers: Ten-Tec RX340, RX320, Harris R2368, Cubic R3030A
Decoders:       Code300-32, Universal M-8000, PK-232MBX/DSP
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