RPi : X11vnc and tightVNCviewer

There isn't a need to sit in the garage . 

Anything I can do at the mouse , keyboard and TV in the garage I can do also from the laptop. 

This is possible thanks to the LAN port and / or the cheap USB wifi modules out there. 

Garage shack / packet station

Needs to be re-sorted after used as a waypoint in carrying Christmas decorations up into attic and cleaning out cars, but here is a packet station in the garage consisting of TV

raspberry Pi

TNC  and a transceiver .

If the missus doesn't care for radios in the house , put 'em in the garage . 

Raspberry Pi

Laptop indoors logged into Raspberry Pi.

A nice way to move the guts of a ham shack out doors  .

And they're reasonably priced .