[Milsurplus] WW II Test Bench Instruments

[Joe Foley]

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Joe





--- Al Klase <al at ar88.net> wrote:

> Yes, GR was, for sure, one of the heavy hitters in
> lab-grade test 
> equipment in this era.  I'll bet the better scopes
> came from Allen B. 
> Dumont.  RCA also made some credible equipment.
> 
> Does anyone know if the boys from Boonton (NJ), like
> Ferris, Ballentine, 
> and Measurements, were in business at that time?
> 
> Al
> 
> Bob Camp wrote:
> > 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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