[Thursday] GenRad in an Ad 1972

[Chris Prata]

thats cool!

IFF - identification friend foe.  developed in WW2 cool, clever technology!

I once read how that works, but would need to review it!





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A company that I worked for as a coop student in the early 1970s (Mutron) bought General Radio's WW-II military radio equipment line when they got out of the business. Mutron continued to support the General Radio equipment until about 1970. While I was there they received an order for an IF strip for a 1940s IFF radar system. The chief engineer and I went into the attic and dug through piles of NOS General Radio parts and assemblies and found a completely assembled IF strip. We added tubes, installed it in a test IFF system, ran through the alignment procedure, and shipped it to the NAVY in San Diego.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:17 AM Lens Email via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org<mailto:thursday at newsm.org>> wrote:
I programmed GenRad in circuit test machines at my first engineering job at Honeywell back in 1979.

Len

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On Jul 6, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Brown Beezer via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org<mailto:thursday at newsm.org>> wrote:


Hello Chris, et al, hope you are all well..

Yes, GenRad originally General Radio - a great company but they took a few wrong turns..... They were leaders in test equipment in the 1950's and early sixties but were overrun by Hewlett Packard and just didn't keep up. GR manufactured the first production oscilloscope but just didn't follow on as well as a number of other instruments. They made wonderful, high quality gear. We have quite a few examples at the museum.

There are a couple of good books on their history.

Cheers,

BB


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Subject: [Thursday] GenRad in an Ad 1972

This ad is kind of cool because it "drove" me to look up General Radio Co., founded in 1915. I wonder if today's Ford luxury offerings are 62dB?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Radio


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