[Milsurplus] AN/USM-26

[Francesco Ledda]

I have one of those!

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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Ray Fantini
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:09 AM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] AN/USM-26


All this talk about the ARR-2 has me thinking about useless technology and
being that I am more inclined to working on things then operating them often
tend to think about test equipment. Anyone besides me remember the AN/USM-26
or FR-38U series frequency counters? I recall seeing them in use back in the
seventies and people who were issued them thru MARS and the like were the
big deal back then. There is also the HP-524 that's the civilian equal of
that frequency counter. From what I remember they were huge, heavy and for
stability always had to be plugged in. Imagine that when the first
generation of digital counters started hitting the market in the late
sixties and early seventies it was all over for the huge vacuum tube base
monsters and where today we see that there are still some who restore and
collect things like the huge Tektronix scopes of that generation, and tons
of people who are doing the radios a quick search of the web shows no one
giving any love to the huge
  old frequency counters of the past. Can the AN/USM-26 be extinct?

Ray F/KA3EKH
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