Yes I know it’s not really cold here in the UK, especially having spent a few winters in Montreal. But it’s damp… always damp. I had set up an electronics bench in the workshop but I was always conscious of the humidity. Recently it’s been hovering above 80% and so I have finally given up the idea and moved the test gear inside.
My original aim was to have the shack in the workshop but three things always stopped me: the fact that having a lot of relatively expensive gear in a wooden workshop in the garden is generally a bad idea; the humidity; and the fact that all my antennas are in the loft. So the radios stayed indoors, now joined by the test gear, which makes sense anyway. Plus there’s more light ‘up here’ with a large south-facing window.
So far, so good…
