[time-nuts] Advice on TRACOR 527E

[J. Forster]

It makes one wonder, because you can buy 432As any day of the week for
well under $50. What can a full cal cost?

It sounds like Agilent really does not want to sell them.

-John

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> That's nothing, HP, Sorry Agilent, are still selling the 432A power meter.
> It was first sold in 1969. 41 years and counting! Price has gone from $495
> to over $12000. The meter uses a DC bridge balancing technique that allows
> for direct comparison using high accuracy DC meters. It's therefore used
> as a transfer standard from NIST's microbolometers to other meters. 
> Robert G8RPI.
>
> --- On Sun, 7/3/10, Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us> wrote:
>
> From: Bob Camp <lists at rtty.us>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Advice on TRACOR 527E
> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> Date: Sunday, 7 March, 2010, 19:37
>
> Hi
>
> As far as I can see, there were very few real changes in the 527 from it's
> birth through the final model. I'm amazed they still could get enough
> 1960's vintage parts to keep building the same design 30 years later.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2010, at 1:22 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>
>> I was looking for doc on the 527 a few months ago and finally got to the
>> guy at Tracor who knew about it. He poinbted me to this guy:
>>
>>
>> Roland Becton
>> Becton Enterprises
>> Austin, Tx
>>
>> 512 251 1460
>> becton.ent at att.net
>>
>> who currently supports the units, as much as anybody still supports
>> them.
>> I was looking for a manual for the 527E w/ schematics, but never got it.
>>
>> In comparing the parts list for the 527A and 527E, the ONLY difference
>> as
>> I remember was in 1 board...  the one that drives the meter... and the
>> front panel, of course. The other board part numbers are identical.
>>
>> The one board would be pretty straight forward to trace, IMO.
>>
>> Best,
>> -John
>>
>> ======================
>>
>>
>>> In a message dated 07/03/2010 14:54:40 GMT Standard Time,
>>> ik1odo at spin-it.com writes:
>>>
>>>
>>> Who was Tremetrics?
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>> Austin Business Journal | September 10,  1990........
>>>
>>> Tracor Instruments Austin changes name to Tremetrics
>>> Tracor Instruments Inc., formerly a division of Tracor Inc., changed
>>> its
>>> name to Tremetrics Inc.
>>> The division was purchased from Tracor by Baker  Hughes, a
>>> Houston-based
>>> business involved in oilfield products and services.  Baker Hughes also
>>> owns
>>> TN Technologies in Round Rock.
>>>
>>>
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