[Milsurplus] Boonton

[J. Forster]

Nope.  GR was in Cambridge, MA then Concord Ma.

Shameless plug -->  There is a list for GR fans:  GenRad on YahooGroups also.

-John

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> On 10/5/2011 7:47 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> As you know, I'm on a lot of lists. As far as I can recall, there has
>> been
>> little to no discussions of Boonton gear on ARC-5 or any other list.
>>
>>> Here I am "a voice in the wilderness" again... sigh.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, John, but this is just another fragmentation
>>> and splintering of what little is left of our community.
>>> You will get a few people at first.
>>> But there is no "cross-pollination" of ideas or
>>> generation of new interest.
>>> Through attrition, the group will eventually become a ghost-town.
>>> That's because few people discover an interest in the group's subject,
>>> because they aren't exposed to it.
>>> There are several mil-radio splinter groups that now languish
>>> and are good examples
>>> I might have developed an interest over the years if I had seen
>>> several posts about these sets. Since I never see any,  I never think
>>> of it.
>>> Since I don't think of it, I see no reason to go subscribe to it.
>>> Others do the same and the topic eventually "peters-out."
>>>
>>> In the end, this splintering is counterproductive and ultimately
>>> self-destructive.  The "delete" key works just as well in
>>> a large community as it does in a small one, so "high noise"
>>> is not a reason to splinter into yet another small group
>>> destined to die out due to attrition.
>>> I know- No one will listen.  I've wasted my breath for years on
>>> this point but by God I'll just waste it again;
>>> It's like WS-19.  When's the last time you saw a discussion thread
>>> on WS-19 on milsurplus?
>> Not lately, but there have been on ArmyRadios w/in the last two weeks.
>>
>> The WS 19 Groups split for very good reasons:
>>
>> The "Original" Canadian Group started censoring posts. I split off from
>> that along with two others who were incensed with that policy. That
>> group
>> has languished in the decade following the split.
>>
>> I was co-founder of the UK based WS 19 Group, and conceived the manual
>> archive, first known as Trackpads and which later became RoyalSignals,
>> as
>> a honey pot to attract members. However my objections to Keith and
>> Alister's fetish with longer and evermore complex passwords and other
>> protection schemes, got me thrown out.
>>
>> I absolutely believed, and still do, that when a manual was offered
>> "free"
>> it means free. No strings, no memberships, no physical ISP email
>> addresses...  no nonsense. And, I do not accept that a person who scans
>> a
>> manual acquires any proprietary interest in it. That is quite clear from
>> copyright law.
>>
>>> You don't, because the same handfull of people are over
>>> on their own splinter-group, hashing and re-hashing with few new
>>> ideas because they've isolated themselves.
>> My various Test Equipment Groups are pockets of intertest in AILtech,
>> EIP
>> Microwave, General Radio, and others. A question about the repair of an
>> EIP Counter will likely go unanswered on Tekscopes or HP-Agilent.
>>
>> Somebody interested in Boonton "Q" meters is probably not interested in
>> ART-13s or ARC-5s.
>>
>>> Heck- even that splinter has been splintered and re-splintered.
>>> There are people here on Milsurplus reading this
>>> right now who would have developed an interest, added new ideas
>>> and done new work had they seen a few threads.
>>> But they didn't, so they go on to other things.
>>>
>>> I don't want to offend, John, but every new "yahoo group" someone
>>> makes to splinter-off members from the more general lists is yet
>>> another nail in our hobby's coffin.  One of these days,
>>> someone will write the last post on the
>>> "Hallicrafters Radios That Were Used in March When It Was Raining."
>>> yahoo group and wonder where everyone went.
>>> Clue: The two that are left are on the yahoo group about the radios
>>> that were used with it wasn't raining.
>>>
>>> 73 Dave AB5S
>> The generalized Test Equipment Groups are really not all that useful for
>> the less common instruments. Ask a question about HP LASER
>> Interferometers
>> on almost any Group, save one, and the silence is complete.
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> -John
>>
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> de WB2CPN
> Wasn't General Radio up there at Boonton?
> I've used an AC voltmeter in a previous job that
> could be where I learned that.
> 73  Clete
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