Friday, January 6, 2012

New Ham Shack

Last weekend I moved my ham shelf to a new home in my old office area that was converted into my fathers sitting area when he moved in with us 3 years ago.  Since his passing we decided to make the area my office again and below is what I have done.  The shack is complete with a sleeping area shower and bathroom the only thing missing is a fridge and microwave and I would not have to leave the shack. I think its best if the YL sees me at meal time at least :-)
I still have some organizing to do and some cable clean up but the shack is up and operational
Below is a list of some of the new stuff I have added to get this station up and running
3 - 135 foot runs of CPX1318FX Black Non-Contaminating Ultra-Violet Resistant Direct Burial Coax from Cable X-Perts (This is some nice stuff) = to LMR400
Heil GM-4 Microphone - Sure is a dandy 2 elements HC-4 and HC-5 to match my Heil Headset
MFJ 258b - This tool is a must I plan to do a post dedicated to this in the near future
A Bose bookshelf speaker stolen from my garage stereo system ... What a difference that makes to listening as opposed to the stock speaker in the TS 2000

Peace
Kelly
The shack
Another view

And looking from the sleeping area



45 days ago

Well its been 45 days. Three days after my last post I came home to find my father had passed away in his room.  An to tell the truth I haven't been right since but we have to keep going even though. I must say that my faith is helping me though some of this and I know now that my parents are together with the Lord.
So now its time for me to pick my self back up and start playing radio.
Peace
Kelly