• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Boonton Radio Corp.; Boonton, NJ

• Year
• 1939–1959 ??

• Category
• Service- or Lab Equipment

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 219469

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• Main principle
• something special ? Please give information (notes)

• Wave bands
• Wave Bands given in the notes.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 115 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• - - No sound reproduction output.

• Material
• Metal case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Boonton Q-Meter 170-A - Boonton Radio Corp.; Boonton,

• Shape
• Tablemodel, low profile (big size).

• Notes
• The Boonton Q-Meter Type 170-A covers 30 MHz to 200 MHz and is the sister instrument to the Type 160-A which covers 50 kc (kHz) to 75 mc (MHz). With the internal multiplier Qs from 0 to 1200 can be measured. Basic accuracy is ±10%. Price in Boonton Catalog B from 1942 is $ 490.00.
  
  Boonton, New Jersey-based Boonton Radio Corporation was founded in 1934 by W. D. Loughlin and several associates and was a manufacturer of electronic test instruments. The new firm concentrated its engineering skill on creating new measuring equipment for the still-young radio industry. Model 100 was the first Q-meter (worldwide), followed by the Q-meters 160-A and 170-A.
  
  HP acquired Boonton in 1959 as a wholly-owned subsidiary. By then the firm had 150 employees and was a pioneer maker of precision instruments for measuring electrical circuit quality and checking aircraft guidance systems. In a year of phenomenal growth for HP (the company acquired three other firms in 1959), Boonton added to the HP family an old, well-established company with an excellent reputation in a field closely related to many HP products.
  
  

• Mentioned in
• Tube Testers and Classic Electronic Test Gear (page 119.)

• Author
• Model page created by Ernst Erb. See "Data change" for further contributors.

• Other Models

• Here you find 20 models, 19 with images and 10 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Boonton Radio Corp.; Boonton, NJ