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 ================ > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Bob Camp <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Advice on TRACOR 527E > To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" > <[email protected]> > 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 >> [email protected] >> >> 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, >>> [email protected] 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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
