I’ve always wanted some kind of callsign “sign” in my little shack. Over the years I’ve seen various signs, everything from as simple as a piece of paper against the wall to very meticulously wooden carved signs. When I recently got my hands on a new 3d printer I decided its time to make my own sign. I did some quick modelling, sent it off to the printer and this was the result:
Sure, its a nice print, but as a sign to proudly present my callsign it was kind of a let down. I started thinking of ideas on how I can improve it.
I started playing around with the design, tweaking it, adding a few more details and after a lot of prototyped prints I ended up with this.
The design takes into various aspects and I tried to make it as customizable as possible. For starters the tower is built up with various lattice pieces and I have designed a few accessories such as a rotator to hold my two Yagi antenna’s (similar to Leo satellite setup).
If you wanted to build your own, you could easily use the same but replace with it with some kind of HF antenna, or maybe even a dish.
The case itself was designed so that I can put a light inside to light up my callsign and on top of the case I added in these indents. Think along the lines of a charm bracelet where you can add your own collection of charms. So far I have designed a small little tv with a “testcard”. I have three more spots I can fill up, maybe with a little radio, or handheld. I’m still deciding. But the point is you can design your own fun “charms” that is more unique to your station.
Its still getting a bit lost on one of the shelves in my shack, but once the light is installed and I have a few more charms I think it will make a nice center piece.
I’ve uploaded all the 3d printable files should you want to design your own callsign “sign” for your shack. I want to design some more charms for it and some other kinds of antenna’s, but the basics is in place.
While this is by no means a serious amateur radio project, its still a very fun project for me and it allowed me to play again with some 3d modelling.
73, ZR6TG