Help Identifying Equipment...

[mixx2001]

Hello! I'm working for a lovely woman (friend of the family), who's husband passed away about seven months ago. His passing was quite unexpected, and she was attempting to handle the estate sale herself, but after being taken to cleaners by a couple of "gentlemen" who relieved her of over $10,000 worth of M1 Garand hardware for $1,500, I told her I would step in and help her value the rest of the estate.

Her Husband dabbled in just about everything from Videograhpy to Amateur Radio. He had Large Format Printers, Oscilloscopes, Naval HP SWR Meters, Geiger Counters, Rifles, Farm Equipment, HAM Equipment, Rare Stones, Lab Equipment, Etc, Etc, pretty much everything you would need to start you own civilization. Most everything I can get a value on no problem, but this particular item is proving most difficult to get any information on, and I'm not even sure it's used in Amateur Radio, but I thought I would check with you guys, to be sure! So I hope I posted this in the appropriate place.

The manual says it's a TSP Series 2000 Voice Digitizer. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Here's couple photos below. Any info provided will be most appreciated. Thanks for your time!

 

[AudioShockwav]

Very interesting, can you snap a picture of the back panel, input/outputs and post it.
I will dig around and see if we can help here.
73
Jeff

 

[fnkycoldmedina]

broadcasting equipment comes to mind.

 

[AudioShockwav]

or Military?


73
Jeff

 

[gamegetter]

voice digitizing equipment? maybe? :headbang

 

[RatsoW8]

Since you have the manual can you post the manufacturers name please? I think these are used in the telecommunications industry and have nothing to do with amateur radio.

 

[mixx2001]

Sorry for my late reply guys, but thanks for your quick replies!! I'm headed over to the house today, and will get some shots of the back & Manual, and post them this afternoon!

 

[Moleculo]

It's a unit that converts analog voice to a digital bitstream for sending over a telecommunications line. They often used these to combine both voice and data over a single line to another office or location. VOIP has pretty much made these things obsolete for the most part. I'm guessing that he got it at an electronics swap meet or maybe military surplus sale.

 

[mixx2001]

Oh well, I had a feeling that would be the case. Thanks for the answer Moleculo! So I'm guessing they're not worth much. They weigh about 30lbs each, so the shipping would be pretty high. This lady needs $$ for repairs to the house they lived in, so we'll take anything we can get, but if it cost more than it's worth to ship, we might as well toss em. To bad. They look like they could power a island fishing community.