[Premium-Rx] Racal MA8134

[mikea]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:36:32PM -0500, Thomas Adams wrote:
> OK Guys, here's the last one for today... I promise!  ;o)
> 
> I have gotten hold of a Racal MA8134 Time Insertion Unit.
> It looks like a time / date code generator and reader, and 
> it seems to be working. Need to replace an 8 volt gel cell
> battery in it tho; that floats the time base oscillator during
> AC power blips.
> 
> I bought it for time stamping tapes of intercepted signals...  
> sigs on one recorder stereo channel, time code on the other. 
> Besides...   that red LED calendar / clock just LOOKS so very
> cool in my shack! <<smile>>
> 
> It's a rack mounted beast, 2 units high. Painted Racal gray,
> and appears to be Canadian manufacture.
> 
> If anyone knows anything about this beast, I've got a question.
> 
> The time code it generates / reads sure isn't SMPTE (didn't
> expect it to be), but to my amazement it doesn't seem to be
> any flavor of IRIG time code either. Anybody know what time
> code standard this critter is using?
> 
> It's too much to hope for...  but if you have a manual for this
> beast, I'll pay for a copy of it.

Can you put up some scope pix of the waveform, and/or such info as
you have managed to glean? I'm interested, having fought various 
AstroData IRIG encoders/decoders to a draw back in 1965-67. 

Hell, if you decide you don't want it, I'll put up with having it in
the shack here. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964