[R-390] HP And Other Signal Generators

[Shoppa, Tim]

I use my HP 200CD for 455 kHz IF alignments.

My first 160 M QSO ever, I made using my HP 209 as a 160 Meter VFO.

The above are normally thought of as "audio" signal generators but they do great for radio work too :-).

They are exceptionally fine instruments. Nobody knew how to build Wien bridge oscillators and RF signal generators like HP.

General Radio stuff was big and heavy and black... and was in a lot of labs... but was nowhere near the high bar that the HP stuff set for equipment usable in field service. And I came to prefer the same HP stuff in the lab too. (Although I do have a certain fondness for GR Hermaphoditic connectors).

I wonder if the current president of HP appreciates that they once made stuff other than printers? :-)

Tim N3QE

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Drew wrote:

>I like my EICO 324! (grin)

Many of us started with a 324 (that was the first generator I owned) 
or a Heathkit SG-8, LG-1, or RF-1U (in my view, the Eicos were much 
better than the Heathkits, although the 324 had its own ... character).

I was lucky to find a General Radio 805-C in need of TLC not too long 
afterwards.  Now THAT was a boatanchor!  Over 100 pounds, IIRC.  It 
came to me along with a 1606-A RF bridge and a Millen grid-dip meter, 
and they all served me faithfully for a couple of decades.  I still 
have the Millen.

Best regards,

Don




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