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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send >> an email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an > email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] -- To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to and follow the instructions there.
