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Old 03-17-2006, 07:10 AM
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Memories of Dumont...

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Originally Posted by Dave S
I ran across an ancient 5" DuMont scope at a hamfest a couple of weeks ago. --Dave
When still in my early/mid twenties there was a "Huge, heavy, steel rail frame" Dumont scope with a 1-microvolt vertical sensitivity setting I used to check the residual noise of mercury batteries that supplied reference voltage to mandrels (sp?) in plotters. IIRC, the scope had a 100-kc vertical bandwidth. After cutting my teeth on 545's with CA plugins, it was quite an impressive hi-sensitivity performer.
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