There were two companies with Boonton in their name
Boonton Electronics. Now a division of a British company boonton.com if interested.
Their two biggest contributions were a C and L bridges that ran at 1 MHz, and a power meter head using diodes.
Boonton Radio Corporation or BRC. These are the guys HP bought. The Q-Meter is prob the biggest contribution, but they did a few other things very well one of which was generators that could FM better then any one else at the time.
The area around Boonton was quite the concentration, all basically springing from a company called Ferris Instruments. Ballentine was another off shoot.
Another company not into instruments but in the same area was Aircraft Radio Corp, or ARC.
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--- In hp_agilent_equipment@..., Dave Daniel <kc0wjn@...> wrote:
Wow. I didn't know HP bought Boonton. I always liked Boonton
instruments, probably because I was born in Boonton. When did HP buy them?
Dave
On 12/21/2012 12:59 PM, Max Robinson wrote:
I am looking for a couple of HP oldies. The 260A Q meter and the 250A RX
meter. I can't find any on eBay. These two instruments were carried over
from Boonton when HP bought them out.
Regards.
Max. K 4 O DS.
Email: max@... <mailto:max%40maxsmusicplace.com>
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