On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 05:09:01 -0800, Bill Turner
wrote:

|On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 23:08:53 -0700, Wes Stewart wrote:
|snip
|The only problem was keeping the GDO hidden from the metrology guys
|since they couldn't "calibrate" and service them so they wanted them
|gone.
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|Great story, Wes. But why couldn't the metrology guys figure out a cal
|procedure? I suspect the Not Invented Here syndrome, right?


The worst thing that could happen to our equipment was for it to go to
"Calibration." I had more than one piece of equipment "accidentally"
dropped and broken when they tired of maintaining it. If they did
this to an HP/Boonton 250 Rx meter what do you think would happen to a
Model 59?

The best we could do was get an "inactive" sticker put on the
equipment. This took it out of the cal cycle but theoretically meant
that we couldn't use it for anything. Also there were the everpresent
management directives to get rid of inactive equipment to reduce
inventory costs. Imagine how much expense could be written off if
Hughes Aircraft Co (now Raytheon) got rid of a Model 59 GDO g.

Might have been enough to reinstate my retiree medical benefit that
was promised to me for 33 years and then taken away. But that's
another story.

Wes