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Linked pages are in English, unless otherwise indicated by flag icon.
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Museums, Societies and Publications |
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North America |
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HMCS
Haida:
Wireless Office |
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US Navy Radio
Communications - 1950's & 1960's |
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Rob Flory
- WW2 Navy Radio |
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Southwest
Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation (SMECC)
Proximity Fuse History
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Online Air Defense Radar
Museum |
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Society for
the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada (S.P.A.R.C.) Museum |
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Military Communications and
Electronics Museum - Kingston, Ontario,
Canada |
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The Hammond Museum of
Radio |
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The
Maritime Radio Historical Society - San
Francisco, CA |
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The Ex-RAF Aerial
Erectors' Association - including
details of some earlier
RAF antenna systems |
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History of Communications-Electronics in the U.S. Navy
by Capt. L. S. Howeth, USN (Ret.) |
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A
History of the Quartz Crystal Industry in the USA,
by V. Bottom (IEEE-UFFC) |
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A
History of Crystal Filters, by R.G. Kinsman
IEEE-UFFC |
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Influence of Ham Radio on the US Commercial Quartz Crystal Market,
by Patrick Brown N7KRG (IEEE-UFFC) |
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The
W9CF T-Network Antenna Tuner Simulator |
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HF-ALE
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document approved for public release |
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The W9CF Transmission Line Calculator
and other
useful items
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Tom Perera W1TP's Museum
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Telegraph Keys, Enigma Crypto Machines, etc. |
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The 1939
Radio Shack Catalogue - a far cry from
today's RS! |
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U.K. & Europe |
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Pye Telecom History Group
- Virtual Pye Museum |
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UK Military Radios
Group |
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PRC-319 Group |
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The G8EPR Pye Museum |
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Crypto Museum - crypto, radio, spy
radios and telecoms |
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Eddystone Radio User
Group |
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Defence Electronics History
Society |
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Vintage and Military Amateur
Radio Society and
VMARS Manuals Archive |
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Royal Signals
Museum and
RSARS |
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Royal Air Force
Signals Museum, RAF Henlow |
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Bletchley Park
and its
Museum |
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RAF Radar Museum |
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Bawdsey Radar
- the UK's first WW2 Chain Home (CH) radar
site |
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RAF Signals Museum,
Henlow, Bedfordshire |
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HMS Collingwood - the new website of
the Royal Navy Museum of Radar and Communications |
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Duxford
Radio Society - Imperial War Museum, Duxford,
England |
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The Wireless Set No. 10 - one of the
world's first multi-channel microwave radio-relay systems |
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Hack Green Bunker
- a former Cold War
site |
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Signals Collection '40-'45
(The Netherlands) |
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PA0PZD's
WW2 Signals Collection |
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Surplus Radio Society
(Nederlands - Dutch) |
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Museum Verbindingsdienst
- the Royal Dutch
Signals Museum |
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The
National Valve (Tube) Museum - information
on British military (CV) and civilian tubes |
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Acorn Antiques - an overview of the Acorn
tube |
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JMH's
Virtual Valve Museum - another U.K. tube
resource |
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The
Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society (VMARS),
U.K. |
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Museeradiomili
- the French military and spy radio museum
(in French & English) |
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Techmili
- Design et objets techniques militaires
(in French & English) |
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F6BIR Sud Picardie
- la nostalgie, l'émission
AM et plus |
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F6BLK -
Bienvenue sur le site de Bernie, F6BLK:
matériel radioamateur,
récepteurs etc. |
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UKW-Berichte
(VHF Communications)
- German RF-engineering magazine
for radio amateurs |
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Seefunk
+ Seeschiffahrt (Maritime
Radio in the German Merchant Marine) |
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Hans-Jörg
Pust's Seafaring and Radio Site
- including Norddeich Radio
(German & English) |
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Museum für historische Wehrtechnik
(Museum of Historic Military Technology)
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Museum für
Nachrichtentechnik (Museum of
Telecommunications Engineering) |
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Sammlung
historische Messtechnik, Berlin |
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Links
for the PRC2000 HF Manpack |
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The History of Ericsson - Sweden's
telecommunications giant |
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Telephones UK
- an authoritative website on the UK
telephone network |
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British Telephones
- UK telephone apparatus & systems |
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The UAX Project
- Unit
Automatic Exchanges*
in the UK and NZ telephone networks |
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*Termed Community Dial Offices (CDO) in North America |
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Review of UK
Telephone Signalling Systems |
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Light Straw ATE
- a retrospective on the UK telephone
network |
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The Telecommunications Heritage
Group (UK) |
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Sam's Telecomms
Index (UK) |
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Fernsprecher Service
- Telekommunikation zwischen Gestern und
Heute |
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Fernmeldemuseum
Aachen - Fernmeldetechnik von gestern
zum Anfassen und Bedienen |
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Fernmelde-Museum Mühlhausen |
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Teleprinter.net - DF3OE's Teleprinter
Museum (in German & English) |
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Radiomuseum
Rottenburg an der Laaber - German civilian
and military radios (in German & English) |
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Sende-
und Empfangsgeräte des Heeres - WWII German
Army radio equipment |
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The Potters Wheel, Cornwall, England
- military radio museum, manuals, swap ads |
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Arthur
Bauer's Foundation
for German communication & related technologies
- in English, Dutch & German |
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New
exhibits at Arthur Bauer's new Klooster
Museum (Dec. 2009) |
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Grön Radio (Green Radio)
- a Swedish military radio site (in Swedish) |
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The Swedish Wireless Set No. 19
Group - in Swedish |
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The Russian RKK Radio
Museum - military radio/wireline comms;
domestic radios (Russian & English) |
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The WS19 Group |
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British WW2 Artillery
Communications |
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The Radar Pages
- all you ever wanted to know about British air
defence radar |
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Post Office Equipment
for Radar - one of the world's first national
digital data networks |
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ON8PO's Communications Museum |
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Classic Broadcast -
Burkhard Baumgartner's broadcasting site
with classic German equipment |
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Radiomilitari
- Antonio Fucci's museum of military/spy
radios & tubes |
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Petr Ourednik OK1RP's
Green Radio Blog - information about
Czech military radios (English & Czech) |
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Bogdan, SP3LD's private radio museum -
great panoramic view |
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SP3LD's private radio collection photos |
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Australia & Asia |
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Tube Radio
Australia |
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Kurrajong Radio Museum
featuring the
Redifon R145 HF
receiver |
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The Airways Museum,
Victoria - including radio comm/nav & radar |
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HRSA
- Historical Radio Society of Australia |
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The
Yokohama WWII Japanese Military Radio Museum (in
Japanese, with some English) |
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Collectors (North America) |
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An interesting
ARC-5 site |
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Militaryradio.com
- Don, W5OR's Military
Radio Site. Also see:
Spy Radio
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Bill Beech, NJ7P's Website |
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Tactical
Link Systems - an excellent Military and Tactical Communications site
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Brooke, N6GCE's Homepage
and Military Information
Page |
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W2EC's Collins, Military and "BA" Site |
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AC7ZL's BC-348
Restoration Page,
Thales TR-VP-13 Manpack and
PSU Pages |
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Breck,
K4CHE's Military Radio &
Boatanchors Page |
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K4XL's
Boat Anchor Manuals Archive |
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Bruce,
K1XR's Collins & Drake Page - including
links to R-390, 618T etc. |
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WB4TUR:
Collecting Military Radios |
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The Canadian Wireless Set No. 19 Website |
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Jerry Proc VE3FAB's Home Page |
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Jerry
Proc VE3FAB's Military and Maritime Radio Site |
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Radio Communications &
SIGINT in the Royal Canadian Navy - by
Jerry Proc VE3FAB |
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The
Wireless-Set-No-19 Group: Website
IO Group
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N5ARW's
Boatanchor Radio Page |
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Real
Radios Have Motors
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AAFRADIO by Mike, KC4TOS:
WWII Airborne Communications Equipment
alternate link |
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Military Radio Collectors' Association |
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Military
Radio Collectors' Group - photos by
Richard Dillman, W6AWO |
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Phil's AN/GRR-5 HF Receiver
Page |
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Al Klase, N3FRQ's "Skywaves"
Site - communications receivers,
military radio etc. |
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Brian, VE3UU's Military Radio & BA
Site - including the "Diefenbunker" |
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Terry O'Laughlin's
Watkins-Johnson
site - a must for WJ
collectors/restorers!
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Phil,
KA4KOE's "Green Radios Roundup" (QST,
April 2006) |
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James A. Moorer's site
- click Boat Anchors for historic receivers |
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hagelin
- collection of spy radios and crypto equipment |
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The
PRC-319 Group |
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Sheltered Communications
Systems Restoration Site -
Rockwell-Collins AN/TSC-60 & others |
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Collectors (U.K. & Europe) |
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Wireless
for the Warrior - Louis Meulstee's superb
site, specialising in British military radio |
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Keith's
RACAL Page |
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Another Racal
RA.17 Page |
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A
concise description of the Racal RA.17 |
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PA8PDP's Racal Pages |
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Ian, GM0UHC's
Racal RA.17 Restoration |
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Another great Milradio
site - including the Collins 618T and 651S-1
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Jose,
EB5AGV's Radio Page |
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Keith,
G3XGW's Military Radio Page - featuring the
19 set |
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G4BXD, Ben Nock's site:
Military Wireless in the Midlands |
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G4BXD Military
Wirless Museum |
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G4MSF, Keith Watt's Vintage Radio Collection |
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G4NCE's
Vintage Military Wireless Collection |
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G4PMY's
Hack Green WebSDR |
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Russian R161
Military Radio Truck Video
ND2X R161 Page R161
Description |
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EI9GQ Homebrew Radio Page |
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The
Boatanchor Collection - military,
amateur and commercial communications receivers |
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Menno,
PE1LDZ's Military Surplus Radio Site -
with many links to European dealers |
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Wammes Witkop's
Green Radios Page - lots of SEM-25 information
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Helge,
LA6NCA's Radio Collection -
including German WW2 gear, in Norwegian & English |
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Helge, LA6NCA's YouTube Videos - German
WW2 radio gear etc. Captions in English |
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LA6NCA's R&S SAMOS VHF/UHF Receivers |
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Successor to SAMOS: R&S ESD - go
to page 8 |
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LA9WNA's Radio
Collection, Telemark, Norway - German
WW2 radios, RAF 331 & 332 Norwegian Squadrons |
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LA7SNA "Feldfunker" Page
Kl.Fuspr.7
"Dorette" Manpack in English |
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Niels Juel's
German WW2 Radio Collection - one of
the finest in Norway, incl. FuG10 test
stand |
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Jan,
LA8AK's
Radio
Communication Resource Page (in
Norwegian, German & English. Author sadly SK) |
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Dr. Martin Boesch's
Shortwave Radio Pages - consumer and commercial receivers
(in German & English) |
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Profi-Empfänger Siemens E 311
(auf deutsch) |
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armyradio.ch
- Swiss Army Communication Sets (in English
and German) |
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Empfänger
E52b "Köln" - ein Spitzengerät
aus den 1940er-Jahren |
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Boatanchors.de
- German post-WW2 tube-type communications and
domestic
receivers (in English) |
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Greenradios.de
- DH4PY's Military Radio Pages |
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Wim
van der Zwan PA3BVT -
collector of surplus radio equipment |
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PA3ECT's military radio page
- including Harris RF-301 series |
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PA3ESY
Vintage Radio Collection - military &
civilian radios, test equipment (Dutch & English) |
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The
IKØMOZ "Gray-Green" Radio Pages - Italian WW2 radio and communications equipment |
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K.P. Jung
- Private Sammlung militärischer Funkgeräte |
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fernmeldeamt.de
- Not quite wireless, but...a fascinating German
telephone collector site |
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Jogi's
Röhrenbude (Jogi's Tube Shack)
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German WW2 radio schematics, tube info etc. |
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Das Sendegerät 1000W KSG1300
der RFT Funkwerk Köpenick - ein modernes Gerät
aus der DDR-Zeit |
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Die Homepage von
H.-T. Schmidt - German tube collector, incl.
WW2 and GDR military tube types |
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AlexTubes
- Röhren u. Geräte |
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Kriegsfunker
- WW2 military radio, mainly German |
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Mirko,
S52PC - Old Radio Collection, including
Western, USSR and Yugoslav military radios
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Mirko's Military Radios (Slovenia) |
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Wireless-Set-No19
Group |
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AF4K BA Directory - links to military
radio sites |
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IK1XPV's
Russian R-326 HF Receiver Page - a 1960-era
receiver which rivals modern sets |
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cqham.ru USSR
Military Tube Transistor Radio Gallery -
unique images of Soviet-era military & civilian radios |
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Miro OM3CU's Military Radio Site
- Slovak & English |
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Frank
Philipse's Vintage Radio site - including the
RAF TR1143 |
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RxControl
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an excellent French SWL/utility receiving website, including info on French
HF receivers |
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Classicbroadcast.de
- an interesting site featuring R&S,
Siemens & Telefunken radio gear |
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Museum NT
- Museum für
Nachrichtentechnik (Museum of Communications Technology) |
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Kees Stravers'
WS19 Mk II
and
Mk 3
Images - also
WS19 Accessories |
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UK Air Ministry
equipment numbers and
Aircraft Radio
Installation list - by M0GXB |
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David Schofield's Radio
Collection |
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The Russian R326
HF receiver - by IK1XPV |
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Collectors (Australia, New Zealand, Asia) |
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VK2DYM's
Military Radio & Radar Information Site |
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Wireless Set A510,
by Colin McKinnon VK2DYM (SK) |
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Kurrajong Radio Museum |
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Ray
Robinson's Restored Radio Museum |
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Ray
Robinson's
Australian Radios,
Information and
Manuals
Pages
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Australian
A510 HF Manpack:
Photo
Accessories
TX Schematic
RX Schematic |
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The New Zealand Vintage Radio Society |
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Tom
Cheng, VR2BB's Military Radio Site -
featuring some superb photos |
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Shozo
Miyagawa, JR3VKH's Site - including many
military radios |
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Dealers (North America) |
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Fair
Radio Sales Inc. |
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Surplus
Sales of Nebraska Inc. - hard-to-find Collins and military parts |
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Toronto
Surplus & Scientific Inc. |
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Columbia
Electronics International Inc. |
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Murphy's
Surplus Warehouse |
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American Milspec LLC
- Electronics &
Communications Surplus |
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Mendelson
Electronics Co. Inc. - located in Dayton, OH
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S&G Electronic Surplus
- military radio/electronics, collictibles &
accessories |
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Radio Esoterica
- radio and test equipment |
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Sources
for test equipment/radio dealers without websites |
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Dealers (U.K. & Europe) |
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Helmut
Singer Elektronik - a leading German
surplus electronics dealer (in German & English) |
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Kraus Nachrichten- u. Meßtechnik
- a very interesting German surplus source |
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Rainer
Förtig Elektronik - Funk- u.
Meßtechnik |
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Army Radio Sales Co.
London,
UK |
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Milradio
- a well-illustrated UK dealer site |
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Baco
Army Goods B.V., The Netherlands |
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Combat
Radio Co. (U.K.) |
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Radiosurplus-Elettronica
- an interesting Italian surplus
resource |
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Stewart of Reading
- surplus test equipment: HP/Agilent,
Marconi, R&S, Racal etc. |
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Dealers (Asia) |
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B.M. Company, Japan
(Japanese/English,
including RT-662/GRC-106 LSB Mod) |
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Technical Documentation and Information
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Milspec Communication
Canada -
Richard
Lacroix's Military Communications Home Page |
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Terry O'Laughlin's CEI &
Watkins Johnson Information Site (including
Racal) |
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Sosin's Marconi Mishap and some little-known receivers
- Michael O'Beirne, G8MOB |
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Vintage and Military
Amateur Radio Society (VMARS) Manuals |
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Surplus Schematics
Book |
Surplus Conversion
Vol. 1 |
Vol. 2 |
Vol. 3 |
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Richard,
G7RVI's WS31 Page -
mirror
site |
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Brooke Clarke, N6GCE's
PRC-25
&
PRC-77
Pages |
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Plessey PTR3411 "Groundsat" tactical VHF repeater
- a single-frequency real-time relay system |
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K4XL's
Boat Anchor Manuals Archive - radio sets & test equipment
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Unterlagen
der Funk- u. Radargeräte der Deutschen Wehrmacht bis 1945
-
Werner Gierlach, DL6VW |
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Funkempfänger der
Fernmeldeaufklärung in den Aufbaujahren der Bundeswehr |
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Kleinfunksprecher d (KlFuSpr.d) "Dorette" -
the WW2 German Army's VHF manpack set |
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The V1 "Buzz Bomb"
("Doodlebug"), including its
radio guidance
system - courtesy Göran Jansson |
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Frank's Electron Tube Pages |
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Frank's
Electron Tube Data Sheets |
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Vacuum Tube Cross-Reference and Substitution List |
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TB 11-2627-2
Cross-Index of Army VT Numbers and Commercial
Numbers
- U.S. tubes only |
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One
Electron: Military
Radio Equipment Manuals and Schematics |
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MIL-STD-188-141B:
Interoperability & Performance Standards for
MF/HF Radio Systems |
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Das
Gürtelpeilgerät - the WW2 belt-worn
direction-finder used to hunt agent sets |
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Foundation for German communication and related
technologies |
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British
Military Timepieces 1870 - 1970 |
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The South African Fuchs B25 HF Manpack - derived from
the French Thomson TRC300 |
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Brian Carling's
Boat-anchor Directory - including military
radio links |
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Dave Zantow's Radio Receiver Page
- including WJ and other premium HF receivers |
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Stoddart and the Radio
Research Receiver - by Harold Layer,
KK6HY |
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Rugby Radio Station (British Telecom)
Tower demolition video |
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H2S Mk 9A
Navigation and Bombing System NBS -
fitted to RAF V-bombers Victor, Valiant and Vulcan |
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Designing the Giant
Antennas - a paper by AA4QY on
VLF Submarine Comms |
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The Wizard War: WW2 &
The Origins Of Radar by Greg Goebel |
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Introduction
To Radar Technology by Greg Goebel |
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FM, Land-Mobile Radio and the Amateur Radio
Service - a brief history |
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German WW2 Radio
Technology - a presentation given to
the North Shore ARC |
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German WW2
SIGINT/COMINT - a presentation given to
the North Shore ARC |
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German WW2
Radar - a presentation given to
the North Shore ARC
Magnetron Note |
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German WW2 ECM - - a presentation given to
the North Shore ARC |
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From FuG 3 to CR100 & T1154/R1155:
Erich Zepler, a major contributor to WW2
military radio |
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The Wizard War:
WW2 & The Origins Of Radar |
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HF Propagation &
Clandestine Communications in WW2
by Brian Austin G0GSF (by kind permission of
Radio Bygones) |
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Communications at the Battle
of Arnhem - a white paper by John Berry |
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Ray
Robinson's Manuals Page - downloadable
military radio manuals |
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Weather Station
"Kurt" - a German WW2 installation in
Newfoundland! |
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OLIVE-DRAB.com
- Military Information HQ
(click
Equipment
for radios) |
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The Air War over the
Netherlands (in Dutch, some German &
English) |
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Huff-Duff: HF/DF (High-Frequency
Direction Finding) in the Royal Navy |
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Cryptology & Computing
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Cracking the Enigma Code |
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Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II |
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German Codebreaking of
WW2 |
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Bletchley Park
- National Codes Centre |
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The National Museum of Computing at
Bletchley Park |
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Bletchley Park in WW2 |
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Colossus |
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First Nations (Native American) Crypto
The
Codetalkers |
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The US Army Signal Corps' SIGSALY System |
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US Code Breakers
in WW2 |
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Cryptologic
Technology - the Canadian Military
Communications & Electronics Museum |
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World
War II: Intelligence |
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Jerry Proc's Crypto Site
The Japanese PURPLE
Code
More on PURPLE |
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Code Breakers at Wheaton College, Illinois |
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WW2 Code Breaking
- courtesy G. Becea |
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German Cipher Machines video |
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The
Russian FIALKA Crypto Machine |
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Copyright © 1999 - 2013 A. Farson (including photo). All rights reserved. Last updated: 10/09/2022
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