THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — ROHDE & SCHWARZ

Indeed there were!    Rohde and Schwarz, that paragon of exquisite German engineering and I am fortunate enough to own one of their EK-07 receivers and a CAQ small clock frequency standard. The company was founded by  Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz after their university days as post docs in  Jena.   In August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business.  The fledgling business grew such that in 1937, the small laboratory moved into a former bakery on Tassiloplatz, in Munich.   From just two young  PhD engineers, the copmpany now employed 35 workers and offered 24 different...

Well, evidence of my advancing years crept up on me and was revealed today when I ran out of puff trying to move my Rohde & Schwarz EK-07 receiver.  Widely acclaimed by some as the best valve communications receiver made, I am priveledged to have one courtesy of my friend Norman Varnes (G4YXX) who tells a tale of spirited bidding over a glass or several of jenever at the famed Helmut SInger emporium to liberate it with a terrible sacrifice not only in pounds sterling but also a most horrendous hangover courtesy of much falling down water consumption during the...