It was a busy week! I was out of town last week doing one of my multi-city sprints for work, where I spend long days working, and then my nights driving between cities. I did get to make a couple of HF contacts, and have a couple chats on repeaters around Long Island, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, but that was really it for my on-air activities.
The radio related thing that I really did last week, was starting to hang drywall. That's the reason I got to spend so much time wearing these things, and practicing my Darth Vader voice:
The radio related thing that I really did last week, was starting to hang drywall. That's the reason I got to spend so much time wearing these things, and practicing my Darth Vader voice:
In the interest of brevity though, I'm not going to bore you with all the details, because I haven't actually started the drywall in the shack yet. My shack project is part of a larger project of finishing the basement in our addition, and refinishing part of the space in the original house. The drywall I was hanging was for the ceiling, but If you'll recall from earlier posts, the ceiling in the shack is actually already done, and it looks like this:
The ceiling I was working on was actually the ceiling in the rec-room, which is the room that just last week, I ran some cable through. This means that while the drywall I hung wasn't in the shack, it means I'm now committed to what I ran into the shack. The good news however, is that I left provisions for future growth, and I always have the "long way around" option if my shack growth exceeds what I can fit through the area that I gave myself access to.
This also means that while I finish up the drywall, I won't have a ton of updates on the home shack other than more drywall and paint. When that's done however, the real fun beings - starting to put together the operating area!
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