Odd you should mention that Gary. When the plant disposed of a lot of the equipment during the early 80's, The tri-county area was awash in cheap test equipment. Everything that came out of that plant had an "S" tattooed with a one of those electric marking pens on it. This really PO'd a lot of folks selling equipment. One of the guys from Com Ser told me that they lost a lot of sales about that time with a flood of cheap Cushman's and R series Moto's hitting the market. From what I gather so was the company's test equip sales. Seems like every shop down here had a piece or two from that dump.
Never knew they took over Singer. They must have made a big secret of it. Parts simply vanished after Eaton/Ailtec shut down. You couldn't get a FM-10 fixed for love or money. Only one place that I recall in Alabama seemed to have any parts stock that they were holding for a ransom. Shame. Best service monitor ever made. I've only seen one FM-100 ever. --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Schafer" <gascha...@...> wrote: > > I said North Carolina before but it should have been South Carolina where > AIE was located. Yes Batesburg was the city. > I think that he worked on a service monitor of his own that never really got > off the ground. I don't know if he sold any or not. > He later bought out the Singer Instruments service monitor, I think it was > an FM100. That didn't go very far either as it was too expensive to build. > Same reason Singer abandoned it. > > Motorola did have a bunch of the GAW two tone generators in their paging > plant in Ft.Lauderdale. They also bought a pot load of the AIE two tone > generators from me around 1984. > > 73 > Gary K4FMX > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater- > > buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dawn > > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:08 PM > > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: GAW/Motorola Test equipment > > > > Just about the time Detwiller came out with that service monitor (SM- > > 512) based on a Bearcat BC-210xlt, AIE sent us a flyer introducing a > > similar product under the Measurements name. From what I remember, it > > was a rectangular box like a CE-50 and based on a mobile scanner using > > LED bar graph displays instead of meters. Batesburg, Va. Wasn't it? > > Never heard anything about them after that. > > > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Schafer" <gaschafer@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Tony, > > > > > > Yes I remember them! They had some similar products to what Helper > > > Instruments built and Automated Industrial electronics (AIE) run by > > Tony > > > Crady in North Carolina. AIE later bought out the remains of the > > > Measurements Corp. > > > > > > As I remember GAW did private label some products for Motorola for > > awhile > > > and may have had their name on them in the Motorola catalog for > > awhile. > > > > > > 73 > > > Gary K4FMX > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Repeater- > > > > buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tony Faiola > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 5:11 PM > > > > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GAW/Motorola Test equipment > > > > > > > > From what I remember, Norman Gaw was an ex engineer of the > > > > Measurement Corp, Boonton, NJ or one of the other Boonton companies. > > > > I still might have some product info in my library (hello Gary > > Shafer > > > > remember them?). Do you need more light? > > > > > > > > Ciao, Tony, K3WX > > > > > > > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Dawn wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know what the background of GAW was? There wasn't a > > > > > shop that I worked in that didn't have one of the Sinad/Distortion > > > > > analyzers or the two tone generator that also was sold under the > > > > > Motorola name. IIRC, there was also a small power supply with a > > > > > hair trigger current trip/disconnect for pagers and handhelds that > > > > > also was rebadged as a Motorola TEK product. I've heard two > > > > > stories. One was the Galvin family owned the product line and > > > > > another was that it was a private venture by an employee and > > > > > distributed through the Moto network. > > > > > > > > > > Can anyone shed any light on this and what other products they > > > > > made? I don't believe that I've ever seen any of these units sold > > > > > on E-bay or through private sales although they were pretty > > > > > ubiquitous. From what I remember, the construction quality was > > > > > similar to kit grade rather then a professionally assembled > > product. > > > > > > > > > > dwt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > >
