[Milsurplus] Boonton gear

[Ray Fantini]

I always thought of Boonton as kind of a knock off of General Radio and Hewlett Packard, epically in the power meter market. Camden New Jersey and the Philadelphia aria were at one time the "silicon valley" of technology back when companies like RCA ruled the technical world just look at all the radio equipment that was manufactured there during the second world war, but have to wonder what happened in the late fifties and sixties to companies like RCA that were thru by the seventies and eighties, at least in New Jersey. Back in the eighties I worked for Hitachi up in the north east of Philadelphia and remember then that lots of the aria across the river and epically Camden NJ was a "no go " zone and anywhere around the RCA plants was never to be entered. New Jersey has a great technical history going back to Edison's labs at the turn of the twentieth century but what the hell happened to Camden?
Ray F

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From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Rob Flory
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:18 PM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] Boonton gear

My Measurements Model 59 grid dip oscillator is one of my most useful pieces
of WWII-era test equipment.  I would never have been able to tune that TBS
to 50Mc (horrors ! )  without it.

My Measurements Model 80 HF/VHF signal generator is also exceptionally
useful, and bears a USN orange anchor.  Does a great job of testing
sensitivity on ARC-1 and other VHF sets.

NJ, where the electronics industry was born and raised.  Anyone who says
otherwise better be able to back it up with their knuckles.

There, I posted something on milsurplus about Boonton.

RF