And in today's edition of old technology from the arctic...
I give you this beast of a phone. It is out of an old console in the abandoned radar up here.
Go on...
Even has an old style network module so I think I'll be able to get it working with a standard phone line eventually....just don't think all the lines at the top will work obviously. Still trying to find the input line.
GIVE IT BACK JAMAL
Heavy duty relays for each line
Even has a solid state input and output amp built in. Impressive since much of the console is powered with vacuum tubes.
And the model. Back when the original mechanical radar was built in 1960 RCA designed EVERYTHING. The buildings, the equipment, etc was all made by RCA. We still use some of the equipment today in the building where the phased array radar is now but not much. They cannibalized a bunch of old cabinets to house newer equipment.
>>55160776
Do you work there? That's neat shit
>>55160554
>abandoned radar
Post pics, anon
60's electronics have the best aesthetics of all decades
Here's a bad angle view of the console. I dunno why...but back in the 50s and 60s everything was that pale green color. Even NASA consoles were that color (I think RCA built those too).
>>55160840
Anon are you raiding an arctic radar station?
>>55160840
fuck, anon. get a better flashlight.
>>55160826
OK. The main radars arrays were pulled down years ago unfortunately but the support buildings are all mostly still in place.
For instance this was taken in one of the old scanner buildings. The radar arrays shot energy into this building and down the waveguides seen here. The chamber to the left held a rotating mechanism that helped "steer" the surveillance radar beam as needed since the grid itself did not move.
>>55160938
I was thinking the same thing when I took the pic...unfortunately I have to make due.
One more pic of the "piano" waveguide as it was called. The pics don't do a real good job capturing just how massive the waveguide setup is.
>>55160840
>>55160983
>>55161007
>>55161040
That's some underground Aperture Science shit
>>55160983
Oh shit, you're the guy from that other thread that raided the radar station for phones
>>55161007
triggered
>>55161103
ONE JOB
>>55161103
HAHAHAHAHAHA
>>55161059
Yup.
Anyway once the radar energy entered through the scanner building it would travel down long tunnels to the main buildings.
Obviously if there is a crack...snow gets in...
>>55160574
>Data Proc
Have you gone looking for bigger equipment?
Older computers or peripherals? Tapes/disk packs? Old TTY/Video consoles?
Here is an outside shot of one of the abandoned main buildings. The previous pic was taken right below where that black tower on the right side of the pic is. There are some doors that are completely covered as you can see. I took these pics in May and the slow has only slightly receded...tho in a few more weeks it will be completely gone again.
>>55161340
Jeez, where is this?
>>55161309
I have. It is all gone. The bulk of the equipment was removed and stored as spares back when they decommissioned the mechanical radar in 87. Clear AFS and Fylingdales in the UK were still operating the old radar so they shifted most of the consoles and such to those locations. Clear only shut down its mechanical radar in the 2000s.
>>55161351
The tag says Thule Air Base, so Greenland.
See >>55160574
>>55161351
Thule AB, Greenland.
Here's a pic of the old radar setup. The building with the dome is the one under all that snow now.
>>55161509
Fun side story. We take fire stupid serious up here. As a radar operator you can be decertified if you fuck up fire procedures. Here is the reason...
http://www.radomes.org/museum/parsehtml.php?html=BMEWSSite1ThuleGLRadomeFire80.html&type=doc_html
Anyway back to the radar itself. Once the energy is fed to the main technical buildings, the waveguides divert everything to equipment to decipher the info and then to the consoles. At the same time, energy is being dumped back out via massive klystron tubes that used to reside in all 3 technical buildings. Today they are gone...I believe Thule's klystrons are now installed at the Arecibo Observatory.
>>55161692
How the place looked in the 60s...
Is there any big iron mainframe/minicomputer shit in there?
I've always wanted to go through a facility like that.
>>55161742
All gone. The only remnant I found was a tape drive.
That said....wayyyyy back when I originally enlisted in 2003 I was charged with disposing of a warehouse full of old equipment at my first station at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Some of the equipment was tagged "Top Secret DARPANET" (old tags...not TS by then). I wish I had tried to save some of that stuff.
best /g/ thread all weak. Some OC for once.
>>55160840
I really wonder about that paint. Must've been 1cent cheaper per gallon? Or knowing American spending, someone who had a paint factory was buddies with a senator.
>>55161951
Fucking pale green paint everywhere.
>>55161951
It was just what was in vogue at the time, like beige computers a couple decades ago.
Thanks OP best thread I've seen here in a while.
>>55160735
Mmh, classic thru-hole components.
>>55161951
They used that color on old appliances from the time as well.
>>55161230
are the white specks on that picture from dust or radiation or something?
>>55162143
Ice. It was still well below freezing and everything was covered in ice crystals. It looked way cooler to the naked eye.
>>55161427
That would explain how clean everything looks. Every abandoned place I've ever been to had been raided many years ago.... fuckers even took ALL the cooper wiring and pulled the asbestos pipe insulation right off to steal all the pipes.
>>55162225
man, I am so jealous
everything looks so awesome
>>55161945
All week? Try in the last 6 months
Here are a few cards I pulled from the console. Vacuum tubes and old school solid state galore!
>>55162560
Would be cool if you could get those to Dave Jones of the EEVblog. He loves doing teardowns of really old electronics and documents it for the world to see.
But I can perfectly understand if you don't wanna pay shipping to Australia.
>>55161858
You would have been shot. Good thing you didn't.
>>55162143
>radiation
What? This is a radar station, not a nuclear power plant.
>>55162807
Actually RF radiation is a real issue. You don't want to hang out around the current phased array radar for more than a few seconds. We have to quickly drive through it every day to get to work. That said...I occasionally take a few extra moments basking in the radiation to get good shots. This one is from the roof of the abandoned building (the one under all that snow)
>>55162807
Radar waves are pretty close to X-rays... With some radars could could hold up a flourescent tube and it'd light up by itself. The microwave oven was invented because some guy forgot his lunch near the radar and came back to find it toasty.
>>55162879
Yea, but it isn't the ionizing radiation that would cause effects on a camera. I'm sure you know why it's not good to hang around high powered radio equipment.
>>55162909
correct
>>55162883
Actually he was testing radar tech and noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. He then tested out popcorn and found it popped. That's how he got the idea for the microwave oven.
>>55162883
Radar and Xrays are completely fucking different. Radar (which uses Radio) has wavelengths from 1mm to 100km, whereas Xrays go from .1nm to 10nm, which is many orders of magnitude smaller.
Radar will bounce off metal, Xrays will pass right through it.
>>55162983
I like that his immediate thought wasn't "holy shit I've been working near this thing for weeks!" but instead "I can probably make money off this"
>>55162883
>Radar waves are pretty close to X-rays
Ha, no.
>>55163012
>"holy shit I've been working near this thing for weeks!"
Because it isn't generally dangerous.
>>55161007
Get some chink shit like a cree.
Do they ship to the arctic?
>>55163032
Microwaves can hurt like a mofo when focused. I took part in a test once of this system and I can tell you the shit is real. My skin was on fire for the brief moment it was turned on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
>>55163100
High powered RF radiation can cause heating, but it isn't destructive like ionizing radiation is. There wouldn't be any lasting effects, unless you gave someone burns with something like that.
>>55163063
That's what was installed in my flashlight. The problem is more focusing. Everything was stupid bright....but when you took a pic it highlighted the sharp edges of the beam.
>>55163063
>Get some chink shit
>like a cree.
>>55163122
Yup. You just wanted to run away ASAP...which was the whole intention of the setup.
>>55163143
Are you using a phone? Phone cameras tend to be horrible at focusing on more than one item at a time, which is why
Need to see more pics OP
>>55163192
Not for those shots. I was using a Canon 6D.
>>55163305
Of the radar or phone? Cant take many more pics of the phone to be honest.
>>55160554
Why are you fucking around on base?
Where are you, and go post on /int/ or /pol/ so I can collect the flag
>>55163305
OK I'll assume radar and go from here. These are all from the abandoned technical building where the tracker radar was once mounted.
>>55163556
Literally who the fuck are you?
My building is very similar which is kinda weird...it's literally like navigating my workplace only completely abandoned.
>>55163754
Someone.
So here are a couple HVAC units in the old building. I'm in the process of getting all of these old units replaced in my building. I wonder how loud they will be vs the old units.
:)
>>55163848
That looks like a petri dish of nasty.
>>55163518
Admit it, given the chance you'd fuck around in an abandoned military radar installation too if you could.
Where the consoles used to be.
>>55163848
is that mould?
In this area my building is a totally different function now. Very strange to see it all open.
![snapshot_12.16_[2015.12.23_22.23.09].png](https://i.imgur.com/7ElgWjC.jpg "snapshot_12.16_[2015.12.23_22.23.09].png")
>>55160554
i live in greenland
Quality OC OP, keep it coming.
>>55161264
Whats in the crates?
>>55163754
He's a nip tripfag.
>>55161230
That's some Metro 2033 shit.
>>55161264
That looks awesome
>>55160554
lol are you joking with those shitty tools
>>55160554
I thoroughly enjoyed every post
thank you, OP
>>55160655
???
>>55162735
that guy is a dumb fuck and has the most annoying voice ever
theres so many better people to watch then him
>>55165078
do tell
>>55165473
tesla500 - tear downs and high speed cameras
mikeselectricstuff - design tips, tear downs
thesignalpath - lots of rf stuff, repair
I used to watch eevblog as well but once past ep 200 he got stupid and started pandering to idiots with his mailbag episodes and "watch me reagrange the office again"
All there of those cover fundamentals, tear downs, design best practices, etc. Really nice cause very little nonsense
I can list more if u want
>>55161558
>that charred dish in the last shot
I don't know why that's freaky, but it is
>>55160554
very nice. Thank you for sharing.
How do they handle decommissioning old hardware like this? Do they just give it away to anyone since it's depreciated beyond any worry?
>>55160554
This is a lot better than your last thread.
Phones like this remind me how much technology has -not- changed in the last 50 years. Not in functionality, at least.
>>55160840
>>55161951
The likely explanation is it is supposed to be easy on your eyes for long hours of work. Surgeons use similar colors for their scrubs and equipment.
For a while I themed my OS to use colors like this and it really is quite comfortable.
>>55163384
>Canon 6D
Exif data clearly says the photos were taken with an iphone 4s
What a great thread,, thanks OP, I read the whole thing now I'm trapped in Wikipedia reading about radar stations.
Excellent pictures
>>55167493
>Exif data clearly says the photos
You're full of shit
Exif gets stripped on this site
>>55164006
>>55164113
Ice, he's in the arctic.
Probably one of the best threads ive seen on /g/ in a very long time. So much better than all that stupid phone shit and linux ricing. Keep posting more pics OP if you have them.
bamp
>>55162735
There' barely anything in that hardware to tear down, pretty much all the traces and components are visible.
>>55161007
Try putting a thin cloth over the flashlight. White t-shirt, maybe. Saw it in a video once.
