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26-28 June 2015
Following the tradition of recent years, Crypto Museum was present at the HAM RADIO
2015 in Friedrichshafen (Germany) at the big Enigma stand in HALLE A3. We had about
the same space and location as last year, but the amount of traffic around our
tables had nearly doubled.
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The Enigma stand was manned by the usual suspects. Tom, Gretchen and Dan Perera were
buying and selling Enigma machines and parts as usual. Henning Treumann and his colleagues
were demonstrating Telex-Over-Internet (TOI), Klaus Kopacs was selling surplus equipment
and Enigma parts and Marc Simons and Paul Reuvers were representing Crypto Museum as
usual.
John Alexander represented TNMOC1 .
Many well-known collectors and researchers were present at the event and most of them
used the Enigma stand as a meeting and resting point.
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Although in general we had the feeling that there was less equipment on offer
than in previous years, we still found a couple of very interesting devices,
parts and artifacts. Furthermore, the people who visited our stand appeared to
have found the most interesting stuff on the tables.
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One of the most exiting artifacts to show up this weekend, was an original
Fialka
spares kit. Being just 6 cm high and painted grey,
most people probably wouldn't have noticed it, but former Fialka operator
Jrög Drobick recognised it after seeing the Fialka rotor shaft and bought it.
The image on the right shows the contents of the spares box which will now
become a highly wanted collector's item. Apart from the rotor shaft, it
contains a service lamp, calibration tools, spare springs, contacts,
transistors and even a moisturizer for pre-gummed paper tape.
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It was really great to see our many friends and supporters from all over
the world, some of whom we see only once a year... in Friedrichshafen.
We received quite a few donations in the form of surplus cipher equipment,
which will be added to the website in the next couple of months.
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On Friday afternoon we (Marc and Paul) held a presentation about the
Enigma family tree,
showing how the various models were related to
each other and where they fitted on the Enigma timeline. There were
also talks by Tom Perera (Enigma history) and Klaus Schmeh (crypto
books), and all of us had a great audience.
Although Friday is traditionally the busiest day of the show, we had
the feeling that there were even more people on Saturday. Despite the
fact that most highlights were gone, we still found a very rare
Hungarian spy radio set that afternoon.
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But the real hammer for use was the red pilot lamp shown above.
It was missing from our British
Noreen cipher machine
and we had
been looking for it for over a year. That Saturday afternoon
it suddenly popped up on one of the tables, brand new and...
for just one Euro. Even if it was just for this one lamp, it would
have been worth the 1360 km round trip to Germany.
Watch the website over the next months when we unpack our new
items and add them to the collection.
Wee had a great time. See you next year(?)
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