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Erik Olsson, Founder<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Today, we commemorate EIDELs founder Erik Olsson which would have been 100 years, August 16th 2022!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik was from a young age more than averagely interested in technology and electronics. In 1949 he got hold of the first low cost junction transistor, the Reytheon CK722, several years before it was commercial available on the market. Even though he was born, raised and educated in Sweden, he moved to Norway where he at a time worked as an engineer for FFI (the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment). Erik and his family found their home in Eidsvoll, a small town an hour drive north of Oslo. There, he started working on new private development projects and soon after founded the company Eidsvoll Electronics (EIDEL). We can only speculate if it was his wife who motivated him to move his development projects from the kitchen table to the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of EIDELs first projects was the delivery of telemetry decoders and encoders to the Northern lights laboratory and Troms\u00f8 Telemetry Station. The latter used to track Europa 1 F9, a rocket launched from Woomera in Australia 1970. The F9 was developed for ELDO (the European Launcher Development Organization), which later evolved into ESA (the European Space Agency). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Europa 1 F9<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, EIDEL has been developing different electronics systems to a wide range of customers and applications, from environmental research to defence and industry, whithin the areas of remote sensing, telemetry, remote control and encryption. There has also been some odd projects, such as the development of an automatic chicken shit remover in the 1970s and using satellites to track the biker Tore N\u00e6rland on his trip around the world in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a list of historical events and customer projects over the years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start      End<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1949                     Erik Olsson bought his first transistors, Raytheon CK722<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 –   1965      Control System for the Radio Telescope at R\u00c5\u00d8 north of Gothenburg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965                     Eidsvoll Electronics AS is established<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964 –   1966      Notodden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965 –   1967      NEK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966                     The Company expands into Olssons Car Garage. EE company registered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 –   1967      Telemetry Decoder for the Northern Light Laboratory in Troms\u00f8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966 –                  Quality control system for cable production, NEK, STK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967 –   1970      F9 Satellite Data Encoder, ESA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967                     Vertical weather profile measurement for meteorology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1968 –   1969      Railway Traffic Control System, STK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1969 –   1970      Balloon Telemetry System, FOA Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1969 –                  Platinum Temperature Sensors for Balloons, NDRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970                     EIDEL moves to the second floor of the bus terminal Rubis<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970 –   1971      TELOX<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970 –   1972      TOKE Torpedo Fire Control System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970 –   1977      Olsons Box PCM Telemetry Decoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1971 –   1972      TOFOK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972                     TOFOK Torpedo Control System, N Navy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972 –   1975      MAE-SS Radar Target Display for Sea-Sparrow, N Navy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975 –   1976      Duplex data link on a single cable to sub-sea vessel Snurre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976                     EIDEL moves into a new building in Kastellvegen at Vilberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976                     Sawmill material sorting system for F\u00e5vang Sag<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976 –   1987      68P1 Telemetry System, industrial<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976 –   1977      Telemetry Data Link from the wrecked jacket on the Frigg gas field, SI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976 –   2009      CBB Side Thruster Propeller Controller, Brunvoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977 –   1978      Duplex data link Remote Control of sub-sea vessel SAAB-SUB, SAAB-SCANIA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977 –   1987      ARGOS Satellite PTT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977 –   1978      Automatisk h\u00f8nem\u00f8kkraker for h\u00f8nseriet p\u00e5 Lie. Levert via Holars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1978 –   1983      EE4000 Telemetry Decoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1978 –   1980      Radar Transponder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979                     Biking Vikings, ARGOS PTT with Tore N\u00e6rland Around the World<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979 –                  VICTOR Industrial Weight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979 –                  TSA-1 ARGOS Testset<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979 –   1982      Penguin Mk II PETEL telemetry Unit, NDRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979 –   1990      Electrometers for Sounding Rockets, NDRE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1980 –   1986      Snow Stick, Optical snow depth measurement transmitted via Argos, NVE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1980 –   1982      Oil-pipe Pig. Ultrasonic measurement of internal rust pits, Veritas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1981 –   1982      Argos PTT tracking S\/Y Berge Viking in the Whitbread Round the World race<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982 –   1995      EE4100 Telemetry Decoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982 –   1985      Alfred<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982 –   2000      Azimuth Propeller Controller, Brunvoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987 –   2002      EE9000 Have-Quick System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1984 –                  EE4110 PCM Simulator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1984 –   1995      EE688 PCM Encoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986                     Building in Kastellvegen sold. Moves to rented facilities at Gruemyra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 –   1995      EE205 PCM Encoder, EE688 System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 –   1987      Snow Depth measured by Radar on a Snow-scooter, NTNF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 –   1990      EE400\/401 Transmitter Data Link<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987 –   1988      F5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988 –   1990      Airborne Encoder \u2013 Decoder, Dornier<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988                     Remote steering of M\/S Remman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988 –   1999      EE315 PCM Decoder, AT-bus cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989 –                  EE322 PCM Simulator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1990 –                  EE220 Data Encoder for Missile Test<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991 –                  EE230 Storage Encoder. Qualified to 5000 G, Saab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992 –   1994      Artemis IPDE, Ion Propulsion Diagnostic Package, ESA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992 –   1997      Avalanche detection and warning system for roads, Statens Vegvesen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993 –                  EE235 Solid State Recorder, 32 Mbyte cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994                     Nisse, Norsk Romsenter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 –                  EE235 Solid State Recorder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994      2012      EE240 PCM Encoder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 –   1999      EE240\/235 for Citius Propeller Test, CPS Production<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 –                  EE206 PCM Encoder. EE688 system in a 19\u201d rack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 –                  EE239 Control Box for EE235<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 –                  Destruct system for SAAB RBS15 missile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995 –                  EE235 Solid State Recorder, 128 Mbyte cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995 –   1999      SSSB, Elmer, LFK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996 –   1997      EE235 SSR for Ariane flight 503, Aerospatiale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996                     EE235 SSR for ARD, Ariane flight 502, Kayser-Threde<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996 –   1998      ODIN 1 Artillery Controll System, N Army<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996                     EE206 1000 channel test system on the Ariane 4 launcher in Kourou, Aerospatiale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997                     EE1001  Bitsync 1553 for Enerdyne Video Compression<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998                     EE240 Encoder, EE235 SSR for UK Submarines, MoD Rosyth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998 –                  EE240-M6 for RBS15 Missile Test, SAAB Dynamics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998 –                  EE235 Solid State Recorder, 256 Mbyte cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999                     EE235-512MB SSR F2 Flight Test, Mitsibishi, Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999 –   2014      SISAM, Remote Radio Control, LFK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000                     EIDEL moves into a new building in Nedre Vilberg vei<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000                     EE235 SSR for IRIS-T, Dielhl-BGT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 –   2015      EE350 PCM Decoder, PCI-bus cards<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001 –                  EE355 Bitsync<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002 –   2011      EE240 MiniTM Data Encoder for RBS15, SAAB Dynamics, Finnish Navy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002                     EE240+ for UK Submarine, MoD Rosyth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003 –                  EE356 Bitsynchronizer Standalone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005 –   2011      EE240-M8 for RBS15 Missile Test, SAAB Dynamics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006 –                  EE360 PCM Decoder for fixed applications<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006 –                  RCDS, Remote Crypto Distribution System, FLO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010 –                  EDDAS Test System for JSM, Kongsberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 –                  SISAM SSSB, FLO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 –                  m-NLP Plasmaprobe, ESA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 –                  CIRIS Plantekammer p\u00e5 ISS, ESA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 –                  CCSDS USLP, ESA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 –                  NCU, FD\/FFI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1986, EIDEL celebrated its 20th anniversery with a video – “The story of EIDEL”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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