Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Jon Elson wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Did you ever see any Microdyne or L3-Com telemetry receivers?
Mostly Nems-Clarke when I was there, which was 40 years ago.
I worked a summer for Defense Electronics Inc. which bought out
the Nems-Clarke name and most of the products from Vitro, I think.

I got to ride in the cab of the Advanced Data Acquisition System
while boresighting a CCTV camera. That one was an old Air Force
radar dish and was definitely run off 400 Hz hydraulics. I think
it was 60' diameter. Looks like they might have torn this down.


Microdyne was started by two engineers & a salesman who left Defense
Electronics about that time. One receiver at the cape had been in
continuous use for 30 years in 2000.
Yeah, that was REALLY well-built stuff, I sometimes see some some
Watkins-Johnson, Nems-Clarke and such show up on eBay, usually badly
incomplete, and still for serious money. Wouldn't mind having a
Nems-Clarke receiver with a set of front ends and the spectrum
analyzer (panoramic display), but buying one piece and hoping the
rest show up someday might be a bad plan.

Jon