The new Radio / Computer Room (Part 3)

The new Radio / Computer Room (Part 3)

This will be the final part in this project and what a great project it has been!

I’m still moving my equipment in but by and large its completed.

It’s great to have the room to spread out like never before & to be able to sort my room into areas.

My main computer area with the 3 screens – My Radio Area – and a Workstation for repairs & kits.

Not forgetting to the far left of the room I have setup a work table & computer for my girlfriend Caitlin to do her University work on.

I have not yet started on the cable management as I’m still moving equipment about and it would seem silly to start using cable ties etc to bunch all the cables together until I am finished.

The room is far from finished as its always evolving as my requirements change over the months, but one thing is for sure, it looks great & is a great place to play radio 😊

The new Radio / Computer Room (Part 2)

The new Radio / Computer Room (Part 2)

It’s been a few days and the project is going well.

I have been moving all my “stuff” into the room so I can sort it and throw out items I really don’t need and put other bits away.

I have to say it’s nice to have such a good amount of room to play with in terms of storage & room to move, given I was in a 4’ x 8’ cupboard!

With the computer & radio equipment now moved in I will need to sort out some type of cable management as there is such a mass of cables behind the units that as I write this are just dropped behind all the units and believe me when I tell you it’s a mess!!

Andy ideas on cable management??   let me know!

The new Radio / Computer Room

The new Radio / Computer Room

Over the past four or so years I have been using a converted walk in wardrobe as a computer / radio room for all my equipment, as you can imagine it was quite small and cramped.

It was only 4 foot wide by 8 foot long.

This led to stacking equipment instead of laying it out like I have always done in the past.

I also had to keep a lot of valuable equipment and leads packed away and stored in stacker boxes and had to search endlessly through them to find the one lead or adaptor I needed to complete the latest task or project.

Well here is the start of the new radio / computer room!!

 

 

As you can see I have gone with just cheap units that I have had for years and a sturdy kitchen worktop made into an L shape that has worked great in the past and has given me access to all that I need.

I will be over the next few weeks be adding book cases etc but it’s a start to a wonderful project.

Check back soon for more updates through the week as I get more done…

A New Direction.

Hi Guys,

Wow its been such a long time since I updated this Blog !!

I hope to start doing more updates & more regularly

Back in 2017, This Blog was mostly about my gardening adventures & clearing the garden to start planting all my veg.

I have to say that went very well and received a great crop.

Its time to have a bit of a change as I love Ham radio & Astronomy. This is now going to be my home for that now.

I will also be posting videos to my Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/stevehomer

I want to get out and about doing portable operation with my ham radio kit

I hope that you will all join me :)

best regards for now

Steve (EI2GYB)

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April 25^th - 30^th

What a great and productive week, The Beetroot seeds have been planet into the seed trays & are now in the green house, they have yet to sprout but im sure they will start in the next few days.

I started work on Plot 2 by removing last seasons swede & weeding the bed. I think the swede from this plot will be very “woody” at this stage as we had one a few weeks back and seemed very stringy and woody.

I managed to pick up a PH tester for the soil as I have not got one and a lot of advice websites were suggesting to make this as a good investment.

I also managed to pick up a few new seeds, One I have never heard of before.

Cucamelon, Sounds interesting? Has anyone had any experience with these…

 Also picked up some Beth Alpha Cucumber & Parsnip seeds.

During the week I was also able to help out a bumble bee that seemed to get trapped in the green house.

This little fella seemed to be exhausted so managed to mix up some honey & water and as you can see it was enjoyed very much.

I never knew bee’s had such a long tongue system WOW!

It was a real treat to see this little guy fly away after about 20 minuets of feasting.

I was also able to pick up some of the plastic ground sheet to make a start on Plot 1 and get the water system installed & covered, More on that this week if the weather is good :)

An unproductive week :)

April 24^th

Last week was quite an unproductive week; Bad weather & my birthday on the 22^nd gave way to not a lot being done at all.

However this weekend has been quite productive, with Plot 1 being finished and all 5 beds have been made and soil made ready for planting into.

This being said I still have to get the ground fabric & watering system (Drip Irrigation) set-up and working.

My Tomatoes needed thinning out and I have potted them on into bigger pots now they are bigger giving them more room and getting them set-up for main planting in the next few weeks.

Most of the Tomatoes will live in the greenhouse but id like to try some outside as well this year just to see the results.

My Lettuce is doing well and has started to sprout up, It wont be long before these will be potted on & being put into Plot 1.

I was having a look around our local Lidl and found the Drip Irrigation system, its like a “leaky” hose that just sits on the soil to water plants.

I had been looking for this for some time and finally found it !! None of the local DIY stores had it and the only place that did was a local garden centre and was looking for €39 for 15m of it, I paid €8 per 15m roll and picked up 2 rolls while it was there.

Here is a look at the rolls & a 4 way splitter for the watering system,

I also picked up a small polly tunnel for one of the beds maybe for the Lettuce not sure yet.

So today’s job is to plant the first wave of the beetroot seeds into a propagator and get them started.

15^th April 2017

Today started quite nice and sunny, By about 2pm it was raining so out with the seeds and make a start planting some seed into the propagators.

I managed to plant 20 plugs with Lettuce these should take about 10-15 days to start showing through

It also gave me chance to put the now growing Tomatoes into the green house leaving space on the sunny window sill for the Lettuce.