I'm stuck in the corner of my bedroom which serves due to my time at the 
radio desk and the computer desk, as my living room, bedroom, work area, 
radio room, computer room, and who knows what next. It's not even a big 
room, it's kind of divided in to 2 very tiny rooms. I wish my brother would 
move out so I can move the entertainment center and the big computer in his 
bedroom that he doesn't use now anyway. I have way too much stuff in here.
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From: "Richard Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:16 AM
Subject: shack ergonomics, was Kenwood pc1a phone patch ...


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n1umj wrote;
   >I know the feeling, my station is just as bad, I haven't seen my
   >artificial ground in years, it's somewhere behind the radio desk
   >computer and I don't know what else is back there anymore that I
   >never need to touch  lol. -----
Dig that!  tHis is a little  8 by 8 with a little bump taken
out for the old furnace that didn't work, as in second
bedroom of a 12 by 50 mobile home.  I've a computer desk
facing the window.  ON it is a Kenwood ts-440 on the main
level with a telephone, external speaker and phone patch.
Atop the external speaker for the 440 is the phone patch.
NExt layer up is the little speaker for the double talk card
in this pc.
tHe computer desk this all sits on has one of those holders
for compact disks on the right going up to a second level
which is probably about 2 ft. or so above the main level of
the desk.  Keyboard of course is on a pullout keyboard
drawer.
On the top level are power supplies for the hf rig and the 2
meter rig, space for braille calendar, box of tissues, a
couple of medicinal items.  Atop the power supply for the 2
meter rig is the Yaesu 2 meter fm rig.  tHe computer rests
on the shelf  at about ankle level when one's feet are on
the floor.  TO my left is a file cabinet and a storage bin,
above them a shelf.  Eventually another workbench slash
shelf will be constructed along this wall.
tO my right, a table with a brailler embosser and room for
fanfold paper to fall behind it.  OF course among all this
is the power strip for the computer stuff, plug bar for the
radio equipment, KEnwood quick charger for our handheld
batteries, a MOtorolla charger for the xyl's mOtorolla uhf
etc.    MOre shelf space is definitely in order here.

THe straight key will be mounted in a day or two on a piece
of two by four so that it can be set aside when not needed
and brought down to the pullout keyboard drawer for checking
into a net occasionally.
I've got a storage shed to build and a back porch to fix
before the shelving in the shack is up to par however.

73 de nf5b




Richard WEbb,
Electric SPider Productions,
Eads Tennessee