[R-390] My home-made AN/URM-25D shipping container, w/ help from KSC

[mikea]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:49:48PM -0400, frankshughes at aim.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I hope some of you find this interesting.
> I was trying to get my trusty AN/URM-25D set up to do some calibration of the Sherwood SE-3 via the R-390A IF out. 
> Of course some of the generator switch positions yield no output, so I am sending
> it off to http://www.kiss-electronics.com/ before proceeding.
> ?
> I did not have a decent box that would protect the generator in the trip from Fla. to Oregon and back.
> 
> Searching the local http://skycraftsurplus.com/ yielded the perfect box, with an interesting history (see photos)
> 
> Some dense foam blocks and a chassis shipping cover from a CISCO 6503 router adapted to the task, volia!
> 
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/mission_s-192.jpg
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/ksc.jpg
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/skylab.jpg
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/CISCO_brace.jpg
> http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x257/fish1_07/ready_to_ship.jpg

_AWESOME_! Brings back memories of the telemetry tape shipping containers
I used to get, way back when we were throwing Gemini spacecraft up into
the sky and getting them back down again. Rose Knot Victor, Antananarive,
Guaymas, ... .

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO  Lockheed Missiles and Space (Project Gemini)
mikea at mikea.ath.cx       July 1, 1965 - 28 February, 1967
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