Updated Amateur Radio Station

A picture of our Amateur Radio Station (Ham Shack). The big change after the room remodeling is the updated console. Notice the two new console shelves on top of the desk. Made the last cut yesterday. It is really nice having everything at your fingertips. We also installed kick panels below the desk to hide all the cabling. The panels are removal just in case we need to run new cables. The computers are located on the left side. The computer is interfaced to the ham radio equipment. Pretty slick if I do say so myself





Nancy sitting at the updated station. We both are proud of the two small consoles . You cannot see them but there are 3 inch access holes in back of the smaller console and 3 inch holes on top and in back of the bigger console. These cutouts provide cable access to the equipment. Notice Nancy's little wood sign and flower on top of the equipment. It was hand made by a friend in Indiana named Charlie. He has passed on but he left a rememberance




Rick sitting at the new console. The wall speaker is an Old RCA Broadcast Speaker. It is one of two speakers that we use for the HF radio.

The VHF and UHF Radios have their own speaker system




This is a close up of the two new consoles and we have Charlies handcrafted signs on the top shelf. Charlie was a one of our friends from Rushville IN and he loved Cherry Pie.

Our other friend in Rushville IN are Mick and his wife Alice who introduced us to Charlie.






Thanks for viewing the blog and Have a great week


Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle

Nancy's Doll Houses

This is Nancy and her first doll house. All the shingles, all the windows, all the parts were in a box. Over a few months time she built this doll house from scratch.






This is an inside view of her first doll house. Notice the wallpaper. The wallpaper came from scraps that, at one time, were on the walls of our home.
The above house is 43 inches tall.

This is a picture of Doll House number 2. It is also 43 inches tall. Again all the detail that you see, is constructed one piece at a time. With the help of a dremel tool, box knife, glue and a hot glue gun the houses take shape.

This is the inside of Doll House number 2. Each room has wall paper and after all these years it is still sticking to the wall. All the steps, windows, flooring were cut to size and glued into place. Lots of detail in these houses.

This is the last picture you will see of Nancy and her Doll Houses. An antique dealer in Pickerington Ohio heard of the houses and wanted them. We delivered them to the store yesterday. At the store one of the houses was placed on a mantle and as you walked into the store you could not miss it.

Lots of work but Nancy really enjoyed building these. In fact she has started on another one. The new one will be slightly smaller than these two.

The antique dealer was thinking of putting one or both in the front store windows. That would definitely attract walk ins. When we delivered them customers were amazed at the amount of detail in the houses.

Nancy does not brag about her work, so I did it for her.

Thanks for viewing the blog and seeing one of Nancy's hobbies. Her other hobbies are Reading, RVing, Ham Radio, Cooking and Gardening.

Thanks again for looking at the blog and have a Great Day

Rick, Nancy, Bandit and Belle