Finally. I just got the home HF station installed, obscured by an Ikea Hemnes secretary, and managed to make a few QSOs.

The only stressor(but does it need to be?) was getting the antenna built and setup. I settled on something that would be relatively quick to build and deploy. I had been researching antennas for quite some time and came across this popular end-fed design from EARCHI  that could be deployed quickly and was flexible with most of the bands.  

The biggest compromise in my implementation in this design is probably the clear plastic enclosure that you see here. It’s all I could scrounge, but it is doing the job of holding the components(wound toroid and terminals) together until I get something waterproof.