For sysadmins with an ache for the opened road , these Ford E350 4×4 vans , thoroughgoing with telescope 35 - fundament mast , are datacenters on wheels .
Eleven of the vans were build up byEMI Technologiesin the ’ XC for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ) to monitor radio receiver frequency interference . That ’s why in addition to the 35 - base antenna mast , each of the new wave has a massive air conditioning unit inside , complete with in - bulwark duct work , as well as Onan 6.5 K generators mounted inside a standard 19 - inch server wheel . A twosome of them even have flip - down desks and ass - front police chief ’s president for pulling all - nighters .
EMI Technologies is still building standardized vehicle for government agencies , but when I phone them this morning they did n’t have a whole lot to say about the vehicles . “ How they were used might be classified , ” one man tell me . But plausibly not — given the NTIA ’s horizon , it ’s more probable these were used to make trusted program television stations were n’t overstepping their spectrum or something .
What get them a actual spate are the vans themselves . Adam , the gentleman’s gentleman who is sell theone with the lowest miles , said he ’d credibly let it go for around $ 16k . That ’s a fantastic quite a little for a dually van with the Quigley 4×4 conversion , even if it is over ten years sometime . I know this because I ’ve been out price vans to convert into an ersatzSportsmobile . I nearly wept when I saw these , because survive in an impractical 4×4 van with an antenna mast tall enough to get a firm 3 G signal on a remote mountaintop is my idea of heaven . I ’m just not certain that there ’d be enough living space inside for me and my dog next to the antenna perch and the 19 - column inch wheel , even if I did remove the laughably large A / C unit . But love would find a way .
Here are theothertwovans . If you buy one , let me labour it around someday !
EBayFord
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