[JMS] Millen S/N List

Don Buska D.Buska at Advantest.com
Fri Jul 22 10:52:29 EDT 2005 

Bob,

The S/N Page looks great!  Yes, working with the current Millen website stuff is pretty extensive.  Figure you have about seven years of material added a little at a time and the sites tend to have a lot of information, hi.  Your lucky in a way as about two years ago I finally got around to organizing the site with subdirectories.  Originally it was all in one directory, but as expected when things grew it was a nightmare to maintain.  Thus the subdirectories helped to keep eveything organized by main page subject areas.

To the other's intending on learning ACCESS.  I've done a little of it here at work.  I converted many forms that we had which were originally either manual, WORD and even Excel based.  None of the former would allow for good record storage and retrieval.  So I bought the ACCESS Bible book and learned how to create forms and reports, etc.  I use it alot now to combine data from several sources to generate reports.  With that said though I would not recommend it for website work.  My experience is that MS Office products have a tendancy to create very bloated html code.  You'd be much better off buying or even using one of the freeware html webpage programs.  I'm still using an old program from the late 90's that runs under my OS/2 OS computers.  I intend to convert over to the one provided with the free Mozilla suite (Web browser, email, etc) that is based on the open sourcing of Netscape.  Plus, if you rely to closly with MS stuff it has a tendancy to only work with MS Explorer.  The ham community has a lot of experimenters and often these people will run LINUX instead of WINDOZE.  Explorer doesn't run on LINUX, but Netscape, Mozilla (Firefox) do.  There are some great database type utilities that can run across all these browsers, including MS Explorer.  The nice thing is most are free too.  Those who have used my ER Index search engine, after you wait for the very slow qsl.net loading time, have used a little database grid program written in JAVA.  This little index can be run on just about every computer out there and just about all operating systems.  The Java Run Time engine is available on all of the later graphical operating systems and again is free in almost all cases.  It comes delivered with all WINDOWS variants today.  So unless you intend on using ACCESS for other home and business uses don't bother learning it for website work. 

With that said, everyone get those S/N's into Bob!

73

Don N9OOg

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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:52 PM
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Subject: [JMS] Millen S/N List

Gary, Don, et al ...

Here is a first cut at a S/N page for Millen. Send corrections, additions to me. I'll make it "pretty" later - put items in order, etc ...

http://www.isquare.com/millen/serial-numbers.htm

Eventually the entire Millen site will be available - give me a little time. Hi.

Don, I agree with your "variations" comments. It's amazing the differences. 
Having been in the electronic manufacturing business (my former company made the Advanced Radio Devices auto-tune amplifiers) I can tell you that especially when building in low volume, there are plenty of changes from unit to unit. I am looking at two Millen VFO's and there are many differences - in fact, the cabinet's are different sizes (!) (close, but different); wiring layout is different; components are different, knobs are different; etc, etc. This makes collecting all the more fun. Hi.

73, Bob
WØYVA
Personal site: http://www.isquare.com/personal_pages/ras-hardware.htm




At 11:01 PM 7/21/2005, Don Buska wrote:
>Gary,
>
>The large panel 90831 modulator we saw at the AWA conference several 
>years back did not have an ID Plate (Variation 1 on our JMS website).
>Thus no serial number.  Besides the catalog picture of that variation 1 
>modulator and the physical one we saw at the fest I've never come 
>across one again.  Hey, maybe that was the only one in existence.
>
>Speaking of model variations.  One of the old Millen brochure copies I 
>have has a picture of a first version of the 90711 VFO.  It looks much 
>different from the ones we all see as it has the standard Millen 
>vernier dial assembly that has the large rectangular logging display.  
>Those who have older Millen parts catalogs will see this in their 
>standard off-the-shelf offering.  That's something for us Millen 
>collectors to always keep our eyes open for.  Items which may appear to 
>be home built using Millen parts could be early manufacturer versions 
>of  later well established products.  Then again I'm sure most of you 
>are like me and can smell the Millen parts at swapfests from 100 feet 
>away, hi hi.  I'll always inspect everyone of those red and black 
>Millen boxes on and under the tables!
>
>For me part of the fun working with the Millen stuff is that many of 
>the products had some serious variations over the years, but the part 
>numbers remained the same.  Like the 9090* scopes that went from 2X2 
>tube power supply to using the later solid-state Millen module supply.
>They never changed the part numbers.  Probably more common in radios 
>between 1930 and the mid-50's.  After that we started to see the suffix 
>variations like A, B, C etc. added to the model numbers from all 
>manufacturers.  Millens Grid Dip meter is a good example of later 
>suffixing of model numbers.  I guess it's an indication of the 
>advancement of modern marketing.  That "New and Improved" mindset.
>
>73
>
>Don N9OO
>
>
>Gary Carter wrote:
>
>>Here's all my Millen equipment to date Bob:
>>
>>90700   Variarm VFO               #259
>>
>>90711   VFO                             #358
>>
>>90801   HF Transmitter              #129
>>
>>90831   Modulator                     #51
>>
>>90881   500 Watt Amp              #97
>>
>>90902   2" Scope                       #450
>>
>>90903   3" Scope                       #658
>>
>>92101   Preamp                         #160
>>
>>
>>
>>Yea Don, I saw that S/N #1 grid dipper on eBay too. I'm glad it 
>>checked out as original. Pretty nice pickup by N4XY!
>>
>>I'm particularly interested to find out the S/N ranges for the 
>>modulators that have the original square meters. As you can see from 
>>my list the modulator I have with the "half moon" meter and the 3" 
>>high front panel has a pretty low number. Don, did you happen to take 
>>note of the S/N on that 5" high(?) front panel modulator with the 
>>"half moon" meter we saw at the AWA conference a few years back? The 
>>only place I've seen that version displayed was in one of the Millen 
>>factory catalogs from the early sixties.
>>
>>Ok JMS members, dig out your Millen equipment. Lets have some more 
>>serial numbers for the master list!
>>
>>73, Gary - WA4IAM
>>
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