The HF radio I’m using doesn’t fit in the instrument panel. It is totally full, but the left hand side pilot arm rest has potential.

Most of this mess has to go into the install. The antenna tuner already has a place in the hell hole which I sorted out some time ago. The handsets won’t be used but the rest will soon live in the plane.

This is the third set of ‘ears’ I made as the beginning of the radio head mount.

Here’s the angle I’m working on. This head will mostly disappear into the armrest.

I then made a few more additions to those brackets. I think I only had to make two sets of these. Why do I keep doing multiples? If its not right, it goes in the bin.

Is this making more sense now?

The main body of the radio also needed a cover.

The other end needed a bracket too. Those holes in the mounts are for clickbonds so I can attach the parts to the side of the fuselage.

It turned out I needed more support for the heavy main body of the radio. Easy, just make another bracket and rivet it on. I used the clickbond for the head doing double duty for the body here.

This was during the processes of installing the clickbonds to get the parts mounted. I used hot glue, bits of wood, whatever was handy while the epoxy set. You can see the armrest area is filling up.

I later mounted an interface box. That’s so boring it was hardly worth a photo. It goes forward of the throttle and behind those cables. I’m sure we might see it in later shots.