Here is my shack!

This is my shack as it is now: sorry, but the image is not too clear since it comes from the direct scanning of a slide and not of a color print of it.

I think I'll have it printed and scanned again pretty soon!

On the top shelf from left to right you can see:

• a desk lamp (!)
• my homebrew computer or, at least, its keyboard, monitor, modem, joystick and speakers (the box is under the table)
• a (black) telephone
• on the shelf, starting from left, a clock set on the GMT time
• behind the clock, the box containing a rather noisy transformer (originally used for the power supply to the HW-101 and now eliminated - in its place there is now an unused 144 MHz "linear" amp)
• two small boxes, the bottom one being a "Hamcomm" interface for SSTV and RTTY and the top one being a probably faulty "Baycom" packet modem (rather low priority for the troubleshooting works)
• the large box is the case/placeholder for the future antenna tuner that I have designed and am now building
• above it, my radio amateur smurf (I think this is the English name for the little blue dwarves we call "puffi")
• the dummy load that N4GU bought for me in the U.S.
• a homemade self-designed 13.5V/150W power supply unit

On the table from left to right you can see:

• the antenna rotator control box
• the vertical box against the wall on the left is the point where the coaxial cables coming from the roof arrive, so that I can easily disconnect the rigs from the antennas (in a straight translation from Italian I would call it a "sectioning box", "scatola di sezionamento" - God knows about the English translation!)
• behind that box, in the darkness, there is the mains distribution box
• the microphone
• the Heathkit HW-101 HF transceiver
• above it, hanging from the upper shelf, the VHF SWR meter and an FT-290R
• to the right, almost invisible in the darkness, there is the Heathkit power supply unit for the HW-101
• in front of the PSU, my CW key (a military surplus one, carefully cleaned and restored to life)
• the two sheets of paper on the wall are an azimuthal map of Western Europe centered on Paderno d'Adda and a DXCC entity list.

The picture has been taken in the morning at about 9 o'clock and the lighting comes from the window that I use both to climb onto the roof for maintaining the antennas and to monitor their situation (for example, whether the rotator makes them rotate - this might seem rather stupid, but you have never seen my rotator at work!).