Uniter

Yes, that is the Brampton NUB alright. I used to visit that one during it's construction after having a look at Chelveston's progress earlier in the morning. In the afternoon I would visit Coltishall and then Marham. I would stay overnight near Sandy ready to visit Odiham and Oakhanger (no NUB there, just fibre optic cable installation) in the morning. then back home to Abingdon. From home I would visit Brize Norton, Bampton Castle and Lyneham. The following week I would head west to Rudloe Manor and St Mawgan and call into Lynham again after spending the night in Newquay or St Mawgan village. That was a typical fortnight for me.

Project Boxer was the distribution part of the network as fully explained by a link in an earlier post. Project Uniter was the construction of the new Uniter buildings, NUB's, and the installation of the computer servers etc. These NUB's consisted of two areas, the plant room and the computer server room. The plant room contained a standby generator, air conditioning system for the computer room and a UPS, uninterruptable power supply, which is connected between the incoming mains electrical supply and the generators output terminals. It automatically supplies electrical power to the computer servers whilst the generator's engine starts up and gets up to speed if the mains electrical power is cut off. The plant room was entirely encased in an EMP, electromagnetic pulse shield. The computer server cabinets had their own individual EMP protection shields.

I think there is one at Corsham as well, its makes sense as it can easily connect to other MOD networks.

Brain is dead today as I cant remember how to get a link from Google Maps, anyways its on the Skynet Drive Site

unless this works.... goo.gl/maps/k2Zmh

Thank you.

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mbriscoe;155698 wrote:

I have just posted some pictures of Dunfermline, taken inside in 2007.

I was reading the comments about power and diesels in the start of this thread. My only contact was with having BOXER on several of our sites at work (they were not allowed to use BT sites so some redundancy in the system). On several occasions I had to ring up the people at Corsham to tell them that either the diesel had not started during a main loss or the diesel had not shut down afterwards. Each time they had not noticed the alarm!

I gather microwave equipment was quite antiquated.

A few of the cabins are still in place, some re-used but also some were just too awkward to remove from hill tops having been taken up on large army offroad vehicles or under a Chinook. At least one was cut up on site as the only to remove it.

Interesting...
Any idea which BOXER cabins are still in-situ?

There is a NUB at RAF Rudloe Manor, which is near Corsham. It was going to be constructed below ground, but was built on the surface eventually. I went down underground to see where it was proposed to be built, there was room for it, but expensive and difficult to construct due to no easy access for materials and equipment I should imagine.

The NUB mentioned about one being at Corsham is most probably the one at RAF Rudloe Manor. That one was originally planned to be underground, but eventually built above ground. I did go underground to monitor our contractor installing the fibre optic cable from the NUB on the surface.

The UNITER switching centre at the Sandy PSD.

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