[Milsurplus] WW II Test Bench Instruments
J Forster
jfor at quik.com
Sun Mar 30 17:45:15 EST 2008
Any idea where to get a scan of the pic?
Thanks,
-John
Bruce MacMillan wrote:
> It's not the design lab but the March 1945 issue of QST has a photo on
> the front cover of a radio assembly and repair bench in a Quonset hut at
> an overseas U.S. Army depot. It contains a mixture of mil stuff (BC221,
> I-177, multimeters) and civilian stuff (sig generator, tube tester,
> vtvm) from Supreme and others.
>
> Bruce ve7mt
>
> 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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