Dennis Cornell, N7HRO

I started stacking radios on the dresser and then built the set of shelves. They include from bottom to top:

Computers: Gateway 2000, Bux Comm Digital Interface and Gateway laptop wireless to internet

Bottom shelf: Icom IC-271H All Mode 2 Meter radio, Sigma VHF Power/SWR meter, CT Asia Brass straight key, and Yaesu FT-920 HF

Middle shelf: Speaker Leader LPM-885 HF Power/SWR meter, Yaesu FL-2100 amplifier, Heathkit Active Audio filter, Heil Goldline boom microphone, and Heil ICM boom microphone

Top shelf: Yaesu SP-102 Speaker, Morse Express 2002 #13 gold mini key, Morse Express 2005 #13 gold mini key, Heathkit SB-614 monitor scope, MFJ 4245 switching power supply, and Bencher straight key

Top of rack: Kent straight key, Alarm clock, CDE Rotator control, Astron switching power supply, and Ameritron RCS-4 Antenna switching control

Antennas: Hy-Gain Hi-Tower, 40' TV tower, Cushcraft A-4 triband beam, Cushcraft stacked 11-element beams, Two-meter vertical, 12/30 dipole, Tower 2 just installed 60', Antennas will include — TH7DX, Three-element 6-meter beam, 2-440 vertical, and 6-160 Dipole ladder line fed.

I tried to keep this installation neat as it is on my dresser in the master bedroom. I am retired and single so whenever I wake up I can roll out of bed and be on the internet and HF/VHF with the coffee brewing in the kitchen already. All the cables are tied and laced on the back of the shelving. I can rotate the shelving to get to the rear of the radios as one unit. I can squelch the HF so if 75 Meters becomes active in the DX window it will wake me up. The second bedroom is where the shack will end up once I get the wiring and lighting completed. Too much to do and not enough time to do it.

Listen for me on the magic band, Six-Meters from DM72.

— Dennis Cornell; n7hro@arrl.net; cappilotdennis@yahoo.com; n7hro@hotmail.com