Messy looking back side of the main portion of the station. I hate putting gear up against a wall so that I can't get to the back of it. So I like this arrangement, which makes everything easy to get to. I tend not to dress the cables too much because it makes the station so much less flexible - every time you change something around you have to cut all the cables loose. As a result, it looks like a bit of a rats nest. The computer in the middle is about to be moved over next to the new one, which didn't have any cables hooked up to it yet when this picture was taken.
* The lamp with the red shade near the middle of the photo is on top of some stereo gear - a CD player, a preamp, and a graphic equalizer.
* the small black box just to the right of that lamp is an IC-PCR2500 computer controlled receiver. I like it for monitoring misc stuff like aviation, marine, public service, and ham repeaters.
* All the power strips, eight of which are more or less visible in this picture, are because I have four line voltages available - 125vac, 117vac, 111vac, and 105vac. This is for the boatanchors. Many of them don't like today's line voltage - it is too high. When these rigs were built the line voltage was 110vac.
* The big black chair is a massage chair. It is located in the sweet spot of the stereo speakers.
* The four stacked Collins units in the back are 516F-2 power supplies for the S-line gear and the KWM-2A.