[Milsurplus] RFL

[Al Klase]

I made sales calls to RFL a few years back.  It appears they are located 
in a former ARC facility.

Google Maps:  
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=353+Powerville+Rd++Boonton,+NJ&hl=en&ll=40.93326,-74.426193&spn=0.008965,0.019698&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.41771,80.683594&vpsrc=6&hnear=353+Powerville+Rd,+Boonton,+Morris,+New+Jersey+07005&t=h&z=16

Note Johanson Memorial Fields.  Johanson was the mechanical genius on 
the SCR-274/ARC-5 equipment, and founder of the Johanson capacitor Co.

Also note:  Rockaway Valley Aerodrome Fields, now athletic fields, this 
was Aircraft Radio Corporation Field with grass runways running 
northeast and southwest still visible.

Saga continues,
Al

On 10/7/2011 8:07 PM, howard holden wrote:
> RFL is now known as RFL Electronics, on Powerville Rd, Boonton. The no longer make the magnetic processing stuff. They are into more "modern" electronics. When I lived back east the company I worked for had some older large RFL magnet chargers and treaters, and we hadn't been able to get replacement parts from them for about 15 years. I knew a couple of people who worked there more recently, and they both had no idea of their RFL's ealier ventures.
>
> I had applied for a job at ARC many years ago, say, 1973 or so, didn't get the job. At that time they had what could only be called a quaint campus. It looked like a large complex of camp buildings or bungalows tucked away in the woods of Boonton. Never knew what happened to them other than that they were no longer there as ARC.
>
> Howie WB2AWQ
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Ralph Cameron<mailto:ramcam at magma.ca>
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>    Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 5:38 PM
>    Subject: [Milsurplus] RFL
>
>
>    RFL Industries was still operating in 1969 out of Boonton N.J. and
>    sprung from Radio Frequency Laboratories which was formed in 1922. I
>    don't know what time period elapsed before RFL Industries was formed. At
>    that time ( in 1969) RFL Inds. occupied 55,000 sq.ft. in Boonton and a
>    smaller components division in Vermont.
>
>    The instrumentation and thermocouple division marketed an equipment
>    family in continuous evolution and refinement for over 20 years. what
>    did they make?
>
>    Magnet chargers and Treaters
>    Automagnetic test&  measurement systems
>    Gaussmeters
>    portable magnetometers
>    meter calibrators
>    Proportional controllers
>    Temperature meters
>    Precision potentiometers
>
>    Their literature says, "since 1922: so when did they fold?
>
>    I sold many of their meter calibrators to the Can. military and Outboard
>    Marine used their magnet chargers to magnetize the magneto for outboard
>    motors.  Most chargers required sophisticated jigs .
>
>    Ralph
>    VE3BBM
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