Unidentified Objects

COUPLINGS DIPOLE

Light Emitting Stones

Weather-forecast-transmitter

RAF-part

Thermo-couple meter

Stabilizer Gyro Amplifier

Switch & Detector Unit REF. No. 10/AE.1558

Dynamotor ZA25907 HT 31 Watt No.1 (Receiver)

Hoewel er op dit antennekoppel-apparaat het een en ander staat, ben ik er nog niet achter waarbij deze balun ( want daar lijkt het sterk op)
werd gebruikt.

COUPLINGS DIPOLE
AERIAL No. 2 MK1/ ??
ZA 30426

Bovenaanzicht.

Zijkant

Met afgeschroefde aansluiting van de antennekabel .

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Another UFO,

Again something from Piet Lassche. Years ago he found in his neigbour's garden typical stones. He was told that these stones were used by the Germans during the second world war. It were light emitting stones and used as lines on airports. I tested them with a radiationmeter, but nothing happened.
The question now is, who knows something about these stones??????
I think it was not such a bright idea, you could not switch off the lights and the airstrip was visible for the enemy.

The top of the stones.

The layer on the top was emitting the light.

The bottom of the stone, why this typical hole??.

The typical surface.

Who knows this logo??

Type-number ???

Did it look like this ???

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A new one, Piet Lassche has this American Transmitter, it looks like a weather-forecast-balloon device, who knows more about this item?????

Hereby an answer and some pictures from South Africa, from Sten, ZS 2 CFC.

Radiosonde T 435 is indeed used for weather...forecasting. The device is carried by balloon ( at this time hydrogen filled ) up to about 10 kms.
As long as the balloon can be observed the wind direction at at that height the sonde is can be established. Because it transmits barometric data.
Other data send down is temperature and humidity. There are many different designs, this old one is with tubes/valves.
Some of those where dropped with a parachute from plane into the eye and or specific points of Hurricanes to get data to learn more about these winds.

It is quite possible that these devices have been used in Europe, not just Germany. I do have the Manual "Radiosonde AN / AMT - 4A " from which the attached pictures are. As you can see on your website is only the "Radio" part and not the sensor part shown. There are many types and makers for these Sondes. They are started from many key places 4 times or so a day to get a picture of higher up winds and conditions, which help in forecasting. This however means that they must have been made by the 100 thousands... I do have a couple of Sondes and allied parts , many - including the handbook come from : www.fairradio.com USA based-the worlds finest surplus...as they say

Thanks Sten.

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What is this, I found it in a B21B receiver (Admiralty) but it is a AirMinistry part ???????

A calibrator with a 100 kHz crystal.

X-tal is dated December 1944.

SOLUTION BROUGHT BY JAN DE VRIES, ON4FVQ.

It belongs to receiver Type 78 ( RAF-part 10D/1307)

This is the Type 78 receiver.

Top-view of the calibrator.

Looking at the right side of the receiver.

The radio is part of the ARI-5206. ARI means Aircraft Radio Installation and the 5206 system, first released around 1943, was installed on different aircraft types.

The complete equipment group listed for the ARI 5206 at the Kurrajong Radio Museum is as follows:
HF receiver Type 78 (2.4 - 13.0 MHz)
HF transmitter Type 53 (2.4 - 13.0 MHz)
MF receiver Type 76
MF transmitter Type 51
Modulator unit Type 76
Aerial tuning unit Type 126
Type 260 control unit for any Air Gunners
Type 276 control unit for any Observers
If all the equipment above was used together, it was known as "Four Square". If only the 78 receiver and 53 transmitter were fitted, it was called "Two in Line". It is now believed that the Two-in-Line system was the one installed in the Firefly.

Two in line

Thanks to Jan de Vries.

Thermocouple-meters

Here some thermocouple-meters. It is Admiralty, but where have they been used??

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STABILIZER GYRO TYPE 3-2

AMPLIFIER

Er staat duidelijk op wat het is, maar heeft iemand enig idee waar dit vandaan komt en wat het precies deed ????

Het gehele apparaat met als eindtrap 2 x 6AQ5W en 2 x 12AT7 als driver en voorversterker (Denk ik)

Blik op de andere zijde.

De uitgangstrafo.

Het speciale inputnetwerk.

De onderkant, nu het schema nog ........

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Het kastje van de Switch & Detector unit REF. No. 10/AE.1558

Dit lege omhulsel heb ik onlangs bij een opruiming gevonden. Alleen het kastje dus.
De vraag is, wat heeft er in gezeten en heeft iemand dit ooit gezien??? Het REF nummer wijst op Air Ministry van de Britten.
Misschien is aan het schema te zien wat het ongeveer was ?????