[Boatanchors] Strange one on EBay

[Pete Lancashire]

A very confusing thing is there were two Boonton's, and if you read
the URL below you could say there were three.

The Boonton that is still around (well just a name on a foreign owned
company but still Boonton) and BRC or Boonton Radio Corporation. BRC
is the one that made the Q and RX meters and was bought by HP in 59.

After WWII they should have got together over a beer or two flipped a
quarter a the looser renamed. It has been confusion since :-)

Now for some real fun this thing was made by "Boonton Research" Not
Boonton or Boonton Radio Corp (HP)

Finally the answer

http://www.hparchive.com/Boonton/Boonton-New-Jersey.pdf

page 4, 1st column.

Boonton Research .. so you could say it was RFL who set up ARC who
sold off Boonton Research etc etc

Boonton NJ must of had some great bar conversations at the time !!!

-pete 260-A and 190-A Q-Meters by BRC and by HP a 250-B RX meter and a
HP 4243A Q-Meter.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Robert Kerr <rrkrr at comcast.net> wrote:
> Boonton is still around making electronic test equipment.  I've used
> some of their fast RF power meters recently, and they are really quite
> handy - like an oscilloscope, but with a log magnitude vertical scale.
> In the 50s and 60s they made "RX meters" for measuring impedances of
> electronic components at high frequencies.  http://www.boonton.com
>
> On 06/21/2010 10:30 PM, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Pete Lancashire"<pete at petelancashire.com>
>> Subject: [Boatanchors] Strange one on EBay
>>
>>
>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400130469176
>>>
>>> Looks like S/N 12 not 1
>>>
>> More than strange!
>> "Boonton Research Corporation," yet it's given a CBY- designation
>> that's supposed to be for Aircraft Radio Corp.
>> I wonder if they were actually under the same roof;
>> new name to get past the pork-barrel deal makers.
>>
>> Anyone got their Ships 242A handy?  The JK should be listed.
>>
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