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John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:28:19 -0400
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It's a shame I sold off a lot in the last year just to eat.  Things are 
looking up now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pierre Berube" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: my shack


> John,
> Joyce, my wife, would say, "Is there something wrong with the water you 
> hams
> drink that has the impulse to keep all this stuff."
> hi hi
> very cool.
> Pierre
> k9eye
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 5:59 PM
> Subject: Re: my shack
>
>
>> My shack is a lot smaller than it was but while i'm in a small apartment
>> it
>> is what it is. For now, I have a computer desk with a table next to it, 
>> on
>> the table next to the desk, botom shelf is all the power supply, CD and 
>> AC
>> power strip and stuff, basically the stuff I never touch. Middle shelf on
>> that table has my TNC and 2 meter packet radio on it, LDG TW1, my
>> artificial
>> ground I never hooked up. On top is my 900 MHz radio which is a motorola
>> MCS2000 mobile in an EF-Johnson base station consol I adapted to take 
>> that
>> radio, the TS-2000 and the speaker for the HF side of the TS-2000. On the
>> computer desk, bottom shelf is a bunch of I don't even know what middle
>> shelf has my external hard drive and stuff, next shelf has my laptop when
>> I'm in the computer room and up top is the scanner/printer/fax
>> machine/coppier and my braille blazer. One of these days I may use a 
>> spare
>> computer at the radio desk instead of the one I use for everythign else
>> again but there's really no room and with downstairs as loud as they are,
>> it's nice to be able to use the TS-2000 in cross band mode and take the
>> computer out to the kitchen. All my desk chargers for my various radios
>> are
>> in the bedroom on the night stand but when it looked like we were going 
>> to
>> have a little one while we live in this apartment, it was very likely my
>> whole station was going to move to the bedroom. It still may but I hope 
>> to
>> wait until we have room before we do that again. My ahnd helds are all
>> over
>> the place here, a drawer full, a few on the desk, it's crazy but that's
>> because I got a batch of 900 MHz ones to sell, normally it's not quite as
>> bad as it is now. Oh, that's right, I forgot to mention the backup radio,
>> the TS-930 is in my storage in t he cellar, on the workbench as is a lot
>> of
>> other equipment, my old GRC9, my GMRS radio, there's a lot in boxes down
>> there. Someday I'll move to a bigger place again and set it all up. 

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