[Milsurplus] AN/USM-26

[Nick England]

a.k.a. the Countersaurus, although I swear the "modern" USM-207 isn't any
lighter
I dunno why I have one, but I do. I need to haul it out and get some photos
on the web.
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Francesco Ledda <frledda at att.net> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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