[Milsurplus] WW II Test Bench Instruments

Bob Camp ham at cq.nu
Sun Mar 30 10:52:57 EST 2008


Hi

I suspect that you would have seen a lot of stuff from General Radio  
if he was working on the east coast. Exactly which models depends on  
when the particular company stocked up. Basic stuff:

VTVM
RF / AF generators
Power supply(s)
Wavemeter(s)
Power meter

Past that, probably not a lot that wasn't custom made. Scopes only  
became common after the war.

Bob


On Mar 30, 2008, at 3:02 AM, J Forster wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what test instruments would have been on the bench  
> of
> a radio or radar development engineer in the last days of WW II ?
>
> I can see a BC-221 or LM-xx and a VOM (what kind?), but what about
> scopes, RF generators, AF generators, power supplies, etc. I suppose  
> it
> would have been a mix of military and commercial, but that's just a
> guess. I'm more interested in standard gear, not special, purpose  
> built,
> test sets for a specific system.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
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