This area is under development

Suppliers of parts, equipment, materials and services.

Components, Computers and Pheripherals

RS,

Tait,

Maplin,

Farnell,

Welwyn, esp. for high precision/high voltage/specialist/low inductance resistors

Buck and Hickman,

Eclipse,

RM, see purchasing webpages

Dell, see purchasing webpages

Elonex

Access Computing, Agents for Sun Microsystems, see purchasing website

Acorn, ROM based computer systems

Nero, supplier of pipeline fittings (esp. Stainless)

Software

Numerical modelling software available in the group includes FEMLab, MatLab, Maple, KARAT 1,2 and 3D (by Vladimir Tarakanov), Magic 2&3D, Opera 2 and 3D and SURETraj 2.5D

Equipment,

Anritsu, contacts Jamal Hamid (Sales and General), Adam Purkiss (Maintenance) and Paul Holes (Technical), VNA, SNA, General RF, detectors, power meters oscillators spectrum analysers

IFR (ex. Marconi), VNA, SNA, General RF, detectors, power meters oscillators spectrum analysers

Agilent, contacts Geoff Wild (Sales and General), VNA, SNA, General RF, detectors, power meters oscillators spectrum analysers, oscilloscopes

Tektronix, contacts Gary Swinton, mainly CROs but also waveform generators

LeCroy, contacts Richard Bloor, mainly CROs

Rohde and Schwarz, VNA, SNA, General RF, detectors, power meters oscillators spectrum analysers

Flann, waveguide and microwave components

Link Microtek, waveguide and microwave components

Atlantec, waveguide and microwave components

e2v, High Power RF and microwave apparatus

TMD, High Power RF and microwave apparatus

TRAK, Ferrite components

Varian, Vacuum apparatus

Edwards, Vacuum apparatus

Balzers (Pfeiffer), Vacuum apparatus

Thales, High Power RF and microwave apparatus

Leybold, Vacuum apparatus

Imex, reseller of CRO's, GPIB, Keithley and other instruments, contact is Walter Gray

Thermo Electron Corporation, X-ray detectors and things

Keithely, High precision DVMs

National Instruments, data acquisition boards and software

Services,

George Taylor, Machine Shop, Contact Sam Dempsey

Barr-Knight, Precision Machine Shop

Spark Erosion Centre, Precision Specialist Machine Shop

Blue Diamond, Machine Shop

Materials,

Cole Tubes, OFHC copper tube

Plasticable, Plastic coating for the above

British Lead Mills, Sheet Lead

Calder Industrial Material, Supplier of lead shielding, also Calder Group