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Happy Memorial Day w/ gear pics

xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
edited 2012-05-27 22:32 in General Discussion
Some gear from back in the day -

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This is my Van, as Engineering section chief I maintained all requirements of all hardware on site. That's from the generators that powered the gear, bandwidth over copper and fiber, to the environmental footprint we left behind on the way out down to the HMMWV tracks.

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AN/TTC-42. Noteworthy piece of comm gear not one person may ever fully understand.

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HMMWV mounted radio gear running on 24vdc.

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This uplink was one of the first, that is all I can say about it. These kids didn't know what a good ground was until I showed them. Probably fundamental for most here...

Good times!

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Comments

  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-05-27 21:34
    xanadu wrote: »
    Some gear from back in the day -

    I'm guessing 90's by the look of the computer?

    OBC
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-05-27 22:31
    What is it?
  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2012-05-27 22:32
    Yes, good call. The pic was taken in 2002 but the gear is much older. We were rolling out VoIP and maintaining POTS lines via the AN/TTC-42 at the same time. We had niprnet/siprnet email. The big horrible dish was replaced by LSAT and internet speed went from bps to mbps. Nonetheless we were fully encrypted and ran enough fiber to call ourselves Verizon.
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