m II wrote:
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In Canada, we put the set on the floor, in front of the chair. You then put your
your feet on top of it and drape the whole works with the dead-seal-skin-lined
dressing gown.

Typical Canadian getting ready for a little shortwave listening. Note the SUMMER wear.

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Winter listening *demands* dead-seal-skin-lined dressing gowns, as the heat from
the radio tubes must be captured. It warms the cockles of the heart (and other
things).

Seriously, I am doing essentially that in my home in Duluth; I am lucky at present
to have an interior temperature above 46 degrees F in areas where I am working,
elsewhere in the house it is barely above 32 degrees F.

Michael