I want one!!
British Engineering at its best!--Although they did have to put in a bit of quirky design with the cutouts that don't allow you to reach the screws!
Dear old "Macaroni" made some marvellous stuff,as well as some "not so marvellous",& some downright evil!
They were never quite as consistent as HP with their RF stuff,but even the "evil" stuff worked ,& was pretty reliable.
The top level stuff like the one reviewed,could hold its own with anything made,anywhere!
The GEC connection--Never had a lot to do with them,but their RF UHF RT links back in the '60s (first generation solid state) were beautifully constructed.
The East-West Broadband microwave system was originally all GEC valve stuff.
The guys who fixed that system also looked after the STL link for ABW2,& quite a few of the original Marconi modules in the STL were replaced with GEC ones--The Marconi link was pretty much an "orphan".
The TV Transmitters at ABW2 were Marconi,& remained in service from about 1960 to 1990----not a bad run!
We had an IFR spectrum Analyser at my last job.(Made in South Korea)
It was a very nice unit,but had a few bugs.
One was that a carrier which changed frequency fairly rapidly appeared as multiple carriers---not good when you are looking for a PLL fault.
The other was that you could control it from a PC,but the only way to send displays to the PC was by using a floppy disc---& this thing was new in about 2005!