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Hi
Per a request from here
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/am-i-the-only-one-that-likes-%27stickers%27/msg776362/#msg776362

Do you have any photos of your interesting and historical test equipment STICKERS you wish to share with us?

thanks


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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2015, 01:27:58 am »
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2015, 02:48:35 am »
A tag, not a sticker. Sony Tektronix 308 data analyzer.





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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2015, 03:26:01 am »
A tag, not a sticker. Sony Tektronix 308 data analyzer.

Tags are good too. :-+ I didn't know Sony and Tek made stuff together.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2015, 04:43:02 am »
Marconi 6960 RF power meter. One of the early units, low serial number.



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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2015, 05:32:33 am »
I have an Efratom FRT Rb Standard that has an interesting little sticker in the bottom right hand corner.  Yes, the sticker is that fuzzy.  I haven't been able to find any information on the "Satellite Ground Systems Laboratory".  Does anyone recognize it?

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2015, 10:28:43 pm »
Kind of looks like the lettering got rubbed away.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2015, 10:30:51 pm »
Fun Stuff, I shall have to dig a bit to find something.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2015, 11:00:05 pm »
Kind of looks like the lettering got rubbed away.

I don't think so.  I think it looks like that because it's small (13 x 11 mm) and not very well printed.

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2015, 11:03:03 pm »
Hi,

Here is a set of asset tags on an HP5061B Cesium Frequency standard:






The US Naval Observatory is responsible for maintaining UTC. So there is a strong possibility that this frequency standard was part of the Atomic Clock used to maintain UTC.

The accuracy was 1 x 10-11 0-50oC


You think they could be a little more precise about the calibration is due ?  :-//

It may not need calibration, because at the time it was a primary frequency standard.

Regards,

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2015, 12:13:20 am »
It's so good, just bring it in whenever and we'll make sure it still doesn't need calibration.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2015, 12:29:38 am »
From under my desk.
And yes it is quite useful.



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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2015, 01:08:31 am »
NAVOCEANPROFAC <- And here I thought the military usually came up with concise, pronounceable acronyms for everything.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2015, 01:24:42 am »
NAVOCEANPROFAC <- And here I thought the military usually came up with concise, pronounceable acronyms for everything.

Maybe there's a really simple way to say it elegantly, like HMMWV  8)
 

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #14 on: October 16, 2015, 01:35:03 am »
Tek 1S1 plugin.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2015, 02:20:19 am »
The Dana Corporation had a team that built the first Direct Digital Synthesizer in the 70's. This was written about in the first Jim Williams book. I have two of these that look like they were used by the JPL Deep Space Network. I have seen articles where these were the key pieces used to track the Voyager probes out past Pluto. The doppler frequency shift communicated relative speed of the probe and the cumulative phase shift measured distance. A nice piece of space history.
Note the Digiphase spelling difference between the front label and the back name tag.
 

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2015, 02:28:58 am »
You guys have some really Cool Stuff.
I'll have to look for some more around here.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2015, 03:00:45 am »
The Dana Corporation had a team that built the first Direct Digital Synthesizer in the 70's. This was written about in the first Jim Williams book. I have two of these that look like they were used by the JPL Deep Space Network. I have seen articles where these were the key pieces used to track the Voyager probes out past Pluto. The doppler frequency shift communicated relative speed of the probe and the cumulative phase shift measured distance. A nice piece of space history.
Note the Digiphase spelling difference between the front label and the back name tag.

 :-+   Ever try to run it?

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2015, 03:21:13 am »
I have a Power Designs 5015A from General Dynamics Astronautic Division (GIIIIIIIID) that was last calibrated in 1969. The front aluminum faceplate and the cal sticker are still there and in excellent shape. The cal sticker is a pretty nifty nylon mesh.
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #19 on: October 16, 2015, 03:23:07 am »
Here are pics of the Bendix HP 3440A I mentioned in the thread that spawned this one.  I purchased this and its sibling this past August from Apex Electronics in the Los Angeles, California area.  They were sitting in the outside fenced in area, 'protected' by virtue of resting inside a desktop rack unit.  (As a New Englander used to frequent rain, snow and ice, seeing all this electronic stuff outside and exposed to the elements seems like insanity, but then again, I suppose just north of LA the elements are mostly sun, heat and more sun.  Oh, and dust, too.  Lots of dust.)  For all their exposure, they're in remarkably good shape and pretty clean inside, though I've no idea how long they may have been there.  There was plenty of dust on them, so my guess is that it was for a while.

The embossed metal tags were doubtless added quite some time after they had been purchased, since a 3490 digital meter (introduced by HP in 1973) that I bought on the same trip has a similar sticker with a lower number than the ones on the 3440As.  The thing I found to be pretty cool was the asset tag on the back of the meter that showed it had been purchased 50 years to the month earlier than when I got it.  It's in the queue for restoration, and the electrolytics inside are no doubt dry as a bone.  Based on the serial number, the meter appears to have been manufactured in late 1964.







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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #20 on: October 16, 2015, 03:25:44 am »
It still runs fine! It needs a 50MHz external reference. So I have to dedicate a second synthesizers if I want to run it. The frequency is accurate to the limits of my lab, 12 digits. It will have a place of honor in my new workshop.

Even the Part Number matches this JPL article

"...The previous report describes the prototype Synthesizer Controller design features in control and monitor of a Dana
Model 7010-S-241 Frequency Synthesizer. Subsequently, six production controllers have been installed in the 64-meter and
34-meter subnet (six stations) exciter to support the Voyager Project Saturn Encounter beginning in November 1980..."
 

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #21 on: October 16, 2015, 04:34:28 am »
From under my desk.
And yes it is quite useful.




Hi If you ever want to sell it, let me know. Roger
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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #22 on: October 16, 2015, 08:24:24 am »
From that other thread about my VS-111R - the stylish NASA worm!



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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2015, 09:19:13 am »
Here are some from my retro test bench.
 

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Re: Photos of your interesting and historical test equipment stickers
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2015, 01:14:11 pm »
From under my desk.
And yes it is quite useful.




Hi If you ever want to sell it, let me know. Roger
It is one of those things that gets used once a year, when you need it, you are glad you have it.

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I need to stop typing before that first cup of coffee in the morning.
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