Its been a busy end of the week in the QTH – generally tidying up, or in the process of ! After doing a number of supporting activties, I continued to tidy the shack up !
The first task was to clear enough space for the new shelving. I used the static space where my current corner desk is to give enough clearance.
Tidy floor, messy old desks 
Pile up ! 
Old desks taking the brunt 
Shelves have arrived
Having got a nice clear space, i then set about hoovering – there was so much dust !
space to build into 
router, no dust 
space for the new racking
As on queue, the racking arrived from Amazon – time for both me and doggo to get some exercise before building the racking !
Having enojyed a break and a nice walk in the park with Sweety, i set about builidng the first set of racks. These a shelves/racks that can go 1.8m high, i used them in a half-form factor to create two desks. Having ordered two of these, I was able to create two ‘desks’ with middle shelves, and two others with a nice bit of capacity. The build was quite straight forward and was able to complete with just a rubber mallet.
1st shelves complete
As time and the day drew on, it was time to start organizing the basic placement of where things will live, or thereabouts, freeing up the my desk and allowing me to continue working.
radios initial position 
other components 
wideview
Having applied a number of layers of conductive tape to the top-most layer of the shelving to get started, i was able to return the radios and start placing the other items in their general locations. I was quite satisfied with the days work given the extent of how disorganized it was at the start of the day. I’m hoping I will get the cable management attached to the relevant loctions and hopefully be back on the air by Monday evening, with at least the 7300, WSPR Raspberry Pi and KiwiSDR.