[time-nuts] Re: introduction

[Wilko Bulte]

Thank you Paul!

This was indeed truly remarkable: a complete TSGT transportable satellite groundstation truck mountable airco-ed shelter unit, with *all* equipment still inside. Up/downconverters, TWT power amplifiers, data modems, antenna steering etc. 1990s/early 2000 era.  Unfortunately I was too late in responding to also grab the HP 12GHz spectrum analyser and the HP 20GHz sweepgenerator that were rackmounted just above the Efratom. But lucky enough to have a guy who bought the SA and de sweepgen not recognising what that "light brown Ball Efratom thing" was. 8-)

The shelter will become a camper, believe it or not..

Wilko

> On 3 Nov 2021, at 15:19, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wilco
> Welcome to time-nuts that does include frequency. That is some military
> surplus find you have. There is little surplus like that in much of the US
> these days. Believe its gathered up and resold to other countries. I never
> see the old surplus dealers that were a lot of fun to visit. Not that even
> back then I could afford shipping for the steel monsters.
> You will find all sorts of very very good technologists here. Ham and
> otherwise. Some do really fantastic projects like restore H Masers. But
> many of us are simply lowly Cesium and Rubidium references and then the
> lazy persons answer a GPDSO. (I like lazy)
> You will fit in well and we always appreciate projects, insights, and
> sharing.
> Enjoy
> Paul
> WB8TSL
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 9:32 AM Wilko Bulte <wkb at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> Thought it be good to introduce myself, being new to the list etc.
>> My name is Wilko, I am a ham operator located in Arnhem, the eastern part
>> of the Netherlands, callsign PA1WBU. There is at least one list member that
>> knows me (hi Poul ;)
>> 
>> I recently found myself with 2x UCCM GPSDO, a FEI Rb &  a Meinberg LanTime
>> M300 DCF77 unit. Since, say, 3 weeks I also have an Efratom MFS. A fellow
>> ham and I bought this as military surplus, it had 2x 5MHz Rb MRK, a MGPS, a
>> bunch of MBU battery units, MBF distrib amps, monitoring unit etc. All
>> housed in a rather hefty 6U double depth 19" rackmount box.
>> 
>> Since it has been split in two separate units, each holding a Rb, PSU, and
>> some distrib amps. So the two of us now each have a small 3U Rb reference
>> in our ham shack. And one that does not take up too much space on the bench.
>> 
>> Sounds like the time-nuts (well, frequency-nut) virus has spread :-|
>> 
>> Wilko
>> 
>> NB: we have some MFS modules surplus to requirements, like the MGPS. In
>> case there is interest, please contact me off list. It is better to offer m
>> here tthan sticking them on eBay I suppose?
>> 
>> 
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