Someone lucked out and got some high end sat com gear!
The very first two pictures you posted are what appear to be WR-137 broadwall wavegude. Construction is typically copper body (rectangular tube) with solid copper or solid brass flanges (depending on customer request). These can also be made of 100% aluminum; rectangular tube and flange. In your case, the body is copper. The top flange (based on gouges) appears plated copper. While the bottom flange (attached to coupler) appears brass. Though lighting may affect what I’m seeing.
On the directional coupler, you have several SMA coaxial connectors. These are typically gold plated brass. The thin metallic tubing between the SMA connectors is RG141 semi-rigid coax. The RG141 coax is either tinned aluminum or tinned copper. There will be a tinned copper center conductor running down the middle. The material used to tin the center conductor is silver. The wavegude and coupler are costly to say the least. I’d try eBay if your’re inclined. If not, with a little work on your part, you may have a lot of good metals for scrap to say the least. With shipping involved, you may make more money scrapping the brass and copper. Weigh your options, pun intended.
The very last picture you posted is of a solid state amplifier of some sort. Be extremely carefull when pulling those tiny boards out. If you look with a 10x loop, you will see very fine gold connecting wires, won’t take much abrasion to knock them off. There will be some gold traces and solder pads a well.
Be on the lookout for small relays in some of this equipment. The contacts typically are solid gold. Barely as big as the fine tip of a mechanical pencil. I’m in the process of stripping out several of these high end relays, tedious, but the gold is there and it’s real. Uncommon in all but the high end comms gear.
Again, nice score!
Have fun!
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