Friday Projects Page II
Page initiated 30 March 2025
The first Friday Project page (November 2024-
January 2025) can be visited at https://www.cdvandt.org/friday-projects.htm
Current Status: 30 March 2025
We are maintaining a dedicated Friday
group with Ambro, Anton, Hans and Eric being engaged in various projects, giving future directions together with Karin Hovius and the foundation board members.
Februari 2025
Our chair and friend Arthur O. Bauer passed away at
the age of 82 years on February 5th 2025.
The center for German Communications and related
Technologies (CDV&T) will continue as a foundation to keep the unique
collection, manuals and setting intact, including organizing various meetings
each year, posting new articles and scanned manuals via the website and social
media, collaborations with other organizations and museums, and the weekly Fridays with Ambro, Anton, Hans,
Eric and Karin to continue with projects and discuss outreach activities.
March 2025
Project update:
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1. Friday: 28 March 2025
With
parts of the collection distributed over 3 different locations, we decided to take
some time to restructure the main location where we have our weekly Friday
meetings. here we have the two large exposition rooms with workbenches, and we will 1) make a library
room with numerous books, manuals and schemes, 2) isolate the depot part to be able to
store instruments and additional workspace, and 3) restructure the cellar to store
the large tube collection, stocks of capacitors and other electronic parts used
for repair.
A separate room at the front of the
building was used for storage and some books. We cleared the room and placed
numerous bookcases as well as drawer units for the hundreds of schemes and
manuals. Many books on German military radio and radar, as well on radio in general, techniques, tube development,
history and also the Dutch history of radio (e.g. Kootwijk) will be placed
here. Work in progress!
The main depot behind the second
exhibition room was not isolated and mainly used to store some pieces of
equipment under poor conditions, as well as chairs and equipment. We are now removing the shelves, stripping the
walls (showing the old walls) and will add a good isolating layer to the walls
and the ceiling. This will enable us to have more radio equipment at this
location, storage of workbenches during exhibits but also place some heavy equipment.
The Myford Super7 lathe might also move to
the depot, as it is currently being located at a different location.
To our surprise we found many hidden items in the depo
, including various antennas.
One antenna is the 2 meter antenna used
for the Fu5 radio set commonly used with panzers and related vehicles.
There were also two Sternantennes, one being the Sternantenne a used for the 30W and 80W
Sender, and the Sternantenne c with extendable rods that was used for the 100W Sender.
With tubes stored on various locations we
also decided to merge these collections. Not an easy task with thousands of tubes!
Step by step the tubes are being
reorganized
The RS237 tubes for the 100W Sender were
tested with the 100W sender. Some were leaking (as shown by a blueish light),
but most tubes were performing nicely as shown by the antenne output.
While we focus mainly on the restructuring we keep interacting with other organisations and welcoming
interested individuals. After the summerbreak we hope
to have our first real symposium again, likely together with our friends of the
Cryptomuseum.
And we help people with requests including
providing loan objects for movie productions such as the 15 WSEB and Hellschreiber for a Dutch movie production...
...and sending German radar related items for
the Yokohama
WWII Japanese Military Radio Museum 横浜旧軍無線通信資料館 run by Takashi Doi
By Eric Reits
