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| Linked pages are in English, unless otherwise indicated by flag icon. |
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| Museums, Societies and Publications |
| North America |
| HMCS Haida: Wireless Office |
| | US Navy Radio Communications - 1950's & 1960's |
| | Rob Flory - WW2 Navy Radio |
| Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation (SMECC) Proximity Fuse History |
| | Online Air Defense Radar Museum |
| Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada (S.P.A.R.C.) Museum |
| | Military Communications and Electronics Museum - Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| | The Hammond Museum of Radio |
| The Maritime Radio Historical Society - San Francisco, CA |
| | The Ex-RAF Aerial Erectors' Association - including details of some earlier RAF antenna systems |
| History of Communications-Electronics in the U.S. Navy by Capt. L. S. Howeth, USN (Ret.) |
| | A History of the Quartz Crystal Industry in the USA, by V. Bottom (IEEE-UFFC) |
| | A History of Crystal Filters, by R.G. Kinsman IEEE-UFFC |
| | Influence of Ham Radio on the US Commercial Quartz Crystal Market, by Patrick Brown N7KRG (IEEE-UFFC) |
| The W9CF T-Network Antenna Tuner Simulator |
| HF-ALE - document approved for public release |
| The W9CF Transmission Line Calculator and other useful items |
| Tom Perera W1TP's Museum - Telegraph Keys, Enigma Crypto Machines, etc. |
| | The 1939 Radio Shack Catalogue - a far cry from today's RS! |
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| U.K. & Europe |
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UK Military Radios Group |
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PRC-319 Group |
| | Pye Telecom History Group - Virtual Pye Museum |
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| The G8EPR Pye Museum |
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Crypto
Museum - crypto, radio, spy radios and
telecoms |
| | Eddystone Radio User Group |
| | Defence Electronics History Society |
| | Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society and VMARS Manuals Archive |
| Royal Signals Museum and RSARS |
| | Royal Air Force Signals Museum, RAF Henlow |
| | Bletchley Park and its Museum |
| | RAF Radar Museum |
| | Bawdsey Radar - the UK's first WW2 Chain Home (CH) radar site |
| | RAF Signals Museum, Henlow, Bedfordshire |
| | HMS Collingwood - the new website of the Royal Navy Museum of Radar and Communications |
| Duxford Radio Society - Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England |
| | The Wireless Set No. 10 - one of the world's first multi-channel microwave radio-relay systems |
| | Hack Green Bunker - a former Cold War site |
| Signals Collection '40-'45 (The Netherlands) |
| | PA0PZD's WW2 Signals Collection |
 | Surplus Radio Society (Nederlands - Dutch) |
| | Museum Verbindingsdienst - the Royal Dutch Signals Museum |
| The National Valve (Tube) Museum - information on British military (CV) and civilian tubes |
| | Acorn Antiques - an overview of the Acorn tube |
| JMH's Virtual Valve Museum - another U.K. tube resource |
| The Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society (VMARS), U.K. |
 | Museeradiomili - the French military and spy radio museum (in French & English) |
| | Techmili - Design et objets techniques militaires (in French & English) |
| | F6BIR Sud Picardie - la nostalgie, l'émission AM et plus |
| | F6BLK - Bienvenue sur le site de Bernie, F6BLK: matériel radioamateur, récepteurs etc. |
 | UKW-Berichte (VHF Communications) - German RF-engineering magazine for radio amateurs |
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Seefunk + Seeschiffahrt (Maritime Radio in the German Merchant Marine) |
| | Hans-Jörg Pust's Seafaring and Radio Site - including Norddeich Radio (German & English) |
| | Museum für historische Wehrtechnik (Museum of Historic Military Technology) |
| | Museum für Nachrichtentechnik (Museum of Telecommunications Engineering) |
| | Sammlung historische Messtechnik, Berlin |
| Links for the PRC2000 HF Manpack |
| | The History of Ericsson - Sweden's telecommunications giant |
| | Telephones UK - an authoritative website on the UK telephone network |
| | British Telephones - UK telephone apparatus & systems |
| | The UAX Project - Unit Automatic Exchanges* in the UK and NZ telephone networks |
| | *Termed Community Dial Offices (CDO) in North America |
| | Review of UK Telephone Signalling Systems |
| | Light Straw ATE - a retrospective on the UK telephone network |
| | The Telecommunications Heritage Group (UK) |
| | Sam's Telecomms Index (UK) |
| | Fernsprecher Service - Telekommunikation zwischen Gestern und Heute |
| | Fernmeldemuseum Aachen - Fernmeldetechnik von gestern zum Anfassen und Bedienen |
| | Fernmelde-Museum Mühlhausen |
| | Teleprinter.net - DF3OE's Teleprinter Museum (in German & English) |
| | Radiomuseum Rottenburg an der Laaber - German civilian and military radios (in German & English) |
| | Sende- und Empfangsgeräte des Heeres - WWII German Army radio equipment |
| The Potters Wheel, Cornwall, England - military radio museum, manuals, swap ads |
| | Arthur Bauer's Foundation for German communication & related technologies - in English, Dutch & German |
| | New exhibits at Arthur Bauer's new Klooster Museum (Dec. 2009) |
 | Grön Radio (Green Radio) - a Swedish military radio site (in Swedish) |
| | The Swedish Wireless Set No. 19 Group - in Swedish |
 | The Russian RKK Radio Museum - military radio/wireline comms; domestic radios (Russian & English) |
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The WS19 Group |
| British WW2 Artillery Communications |
| | The Radar Pages - all you ever wanted to know about British air defence radar |
| | Post Office Equipment for Radar - one of the world's first national digital data networks |
| | ON8PO's Communications Museum |
| | Classic Broadcast - Burkhard Baumgartner's broadcasting site with classic German equipment |
| | Radiomilitari - Antonio Fucci's museum of military/spy radios & tubes |
 | Petr Ourednik OK1RP's Green Radio Blog - information about Czech military radios (English & Czech) |
| | Bogdan, SP3LD's private radio museum - great panoramic view |
 | SP3LD's private radio collection photos |
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| Australia & Asia |
| | Tube Radio Australia |
| Ray Robinson's Restored Radio Museum |
| Kurrajong Radio Museum featuring the Redifon R145 HF receiver |
| The Airways Museum, Victoria - including radio comm/nav & radar |
| HRSA - Historical Radio Society of Australia |
 | The Yokohama WWII Japanese Military Radio Museum (in Japanese, with some English) |
| Australian Military Communications in Vietnam (PDF) |
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| Collectors (North America) |
| An interesting ARC-5 site |
| Militaryradio.com - Don, W5OR's Military Radio Site. Also see: Spy Radio |
| | Bill Beech, NJ7P's Website |
| Tactical Link Systems - an excellent Military and Tactical Communications site |
| Brooke, N6GCE's Homepage and Military Information Page |
| W2EC's Collins, Military and "BA" Site |
| | AC7ZL's BC-348 Restoration Page, Thales TR-VP-13 Manpack and PSU Pages |
| Breck, K4CHE's Military Radio & Boatanchors Page |
| K4XL's Boat Anchor Manuals Archive |
| Bruce, K1XR's Collins & Drake Page - including links to R-390, 618T etc. |
| WB4TUR: Collecting Military Radios |
| The Canadian Wireless Set No. 19 Website |
| | Jerry Proc VE3FAB's Home Page |
| Jerry Proc VE3FAB's Military and Maritime Radio Site |
| Radio Communications & SIGINT in the Royal Canadian Navy - by Jerry Proc VE3FAB |
| The Wireless-Set-No-19 Group: Website Yahoo!Group |
| N5ARW's Boatanchor Radio Page |
| Real Radios Have Motors |
| AAFRADIO by Mike, KC4TOS: WWII Airborne Communications Equipment alternate link |
| | Military Radio Collectors' Association |
| Military Radio Collectors' Group - photos by Richard Dillman, W6AWO |
| | Phil's AN/GRR-5 HF Receiver Page |
| | Al Klase, N3FRQ's "Skywaves" Site - communications receivers, military radio etc. |
| | Brian, VE3UU's Military Radio & BA Site - including the "Diefenbunker" |
| | Terry O'Laughlin's Watkins-Johnson site - a must for WJ collectors/restorers! |
| | Phil, KA4KOE's "Green Radios Roundup" (QST, April 2006) |
| | James A. Moorer's site - click Boat Anchors for historic receivers |
| | hagelin - collection of spy radios and crypto equipment |
| Sheltered Communications Systems Restoration Site - Rockwell-Collins AN/TSC-60 & others |
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| Collectors (U.K. & Europe) |
| Wireless for the Warrior - Louis Meulstee's superb site, specialising in British military radio |
| Keith's RACAL Page |
| Another Racal RA.17 Page |
| | A concise description of the Racal RA.17 |
| | PA8PDP's Racal Pages |
| | Ian, GM0UHC's Racal RA.17 Restoration |
| Another great Milradio site - including the Collins 618T and 651S-1 |
| Jose, EB5AGV's Radio Page |
| Keith, G3XGW's Military Radio Page - featuring the 19 set |
| G4BXD, Ben Nock's site: Military Wireless in the Midlands |
| | G4BXD Military Wirless Museum |
| | G4MSF, Keith Watt's Vintage Radio Collection |
| G4NCE's Vintage Military Wireless Collection |
| | G4PMY's Hack Green WebSDR |
| | Russian R161 Military Radio Truck Video ND2X R161 Page R161 Description |
| EI9GQ Homebrew Radio Page |
| | The Boatanchor Collection - military, amateur and commercial communications receivers |
| 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 |
 | Helge, LA6NCA's Radio Collection - including German WW2 gear, in Norwegian & English |
| | 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 |
| | LA9WNA's Radio Collection, Telemark, Norway - German WW2 radios, RAF 331 & 332 Norwegian Squadrons |
| | LA7SNA "Feldfunker" Page Kl.Fuspr.7 "Dorette" Manpack in English |
| | Niels Juel's German WW2 Radio Collection - one of the finest in Norway, incl. FuG10 test stand |
| | Jan, LA8AK's Radio Communication Resource Page (in Norwegian, German & English. Author sadly SK) |
 | Dr. Martin Boesch's Shortwave Radio Pages - consumer and commercial receivers (in German & English) |
| | Profi-Empfänger Siemens E 311 (auf deutsch) |
| | armyradio.ch - Swiss Army Communication Sets (in English and German) |
| | K.P. Jung - Private Sammlung militärischer Funkgeräte |
| | 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 |
| | Wim van der Zwan PA3BVT - collector of surplus radio equipment |
| | PA3ECT's military radio page - including Harris RF-301 series |
| | PA3ESY Vintage Radio Collection - military & civilian radios, test equipment (Dutch & English) |
| The IKØMOZ "Gray-Green" Radio Pages - Italian WW2 radio and communications equipment |
| | fernmeldeamt.de - Not quite wireless, but...a fascinating German telephone collector site |
| | Jogi's Röhrenbude (Jogi's Tube Shack) - German WW2 radio schematics, tube info etc. |
| | Das Sendegerät 1000W KSG1300 der RFT Funkwerk Köpenick - ein modernes Gerät aus der DDR-Zeit |
| | Die Homepage von H.-T. Schmidt - German tube collector, incl. WW2 and GDR military tube types |
| | AlexTubes - Röhren u. Geräte |
| | Kriegsfunker - WW2 military radio, mainly German |
| Mirko, S52PC - Old Radio Collection, including Western, USSR and Yugoslav military radios |
| | Mirko's Military Radios (Slovenia) |
| Wireless-Set-No19 Yahoo! Group |
| AF4K BA Directory - links to military radio sites |
| IK1XPV's Russian R-326 HF Receiver Page - a 1960-era receiver which rivals modern sets |
| | cqham.ru USSR Military Tube Transistor Radio Gallery - unique images of Soviet-era military & civilian radios |
 | Miro OM3CU's Military Radio Site - Slovak & English |
| | Frank Philipse's Vintage Radio site - including the RAF TR1143 |
| | RxControl - an excellent French SWL/utility receiving website, including info on French HF receivers |
| | Classicbroadcast.de - an interesting site featuring R&S, Siemens & Telefunken radio gear |
| | Museum NT - Museum für Nachrichtentechnik (Museum of Communications Technology) |
| | Kees Stravers' WS19 Mk II and Mk 3 Images - also WS19 Accessories |
| | UK Air Ministry equipment numbers and Aircraft Radio Installation list - by M0GXB |
| | David Schofield's Radio Collection |
| | The Russian R326 HF receiver - by IK1XPV |
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| Collectors (Australia, New Zealand, Asia) |
| VK2DYM's Military Radio & Radar Information Site |
| | Wireless Set A510, by Colin McKinnon VK2DYM (SK) |
| Kurrajong Radio Museum |
| Ray Robinson's Restored Radio Museum |
| Ray Robinson's Australian Radios, Information and Manuals Pages |
| Australian A510 HF Manpack: Photo Accessories TX Schematic RX Schematic |
| | The New Zealand Vintage Radio Society |
| Tom Cheng, VR2BB's Military Radio Site - featuring some superb photos |
| | Shozo Miyagawa, JR3VKH's Site - including many military radios |
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| Dealers (North America) |
| Fair Radio Sales Inc. |
| Surplus Sales of Nebraska Inc. - hard-to-find Collins and military parts |
| Toronto Surplus & Scientific Inc. |
| Columbia Electronics International Inc. |
| Murphy's Surplus Warehouse |
| American Milspec LLC - Electronics & Communications Surplus |
| Mendelson Electronics Co. Inc. - located in Dayton, OH |
| | S&G Electronic Surplus - military radio/electronics, collictibles & accessories |
| | Radio Esoterica - radio and test equipment |
| Sources for test equipment/radio dealers without websites |
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| Dealers (U.K. & Europe) |
| | Helmut Singer Elektronik - a leading German surplus electronics dealer (in German & English) |
| | Kraus Nachrichten- u. Meßtechnik - a very interesting German surplus source |
| | Rainer Förtig Elektronik - Funk- u. Meßtechnik |
| Army Radio Sales Co. London, UK |
| | Milradio - a well-illustrated UK dealer site |
| | Baco Army Goods B.V., The Netherlands |
| Combat Radio Co. (U.K.) |
 | Radiosurplus-Elettronica - an interesting Italian surplus resource |
| | Stewart of Reading - surplus test equipment: HP/Agilent, Marconi, R&S, Racal etc. |
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| Dealers (Asia) |
| | B.M. Company, Japan (Japanese/English, including RT-662/GRC-106 LSB Mod) |
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| Technical Documentation and Information |
| Milspec Communication Canada - Richard Lacroix's Military Communications Home Page |
| | Terry O'Laughlin's CEI & Watkins Johnson Information Site (including Racal) |
| | Sosin's Marconi Mishap and some little-known receivers - Michael O'Beirne, G8MOB |
| | Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society (VMARS) Manuals |
| | Surplus Schematics Book | Surplus Conversion Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 |
| Richard, G7RVI's WS31 Page - mirror site |
| | Brooke Clarke, N6GCE's PRC-25 & PRC-77 Pages |
| | Plessey PTR3411 "Groundsat" tactical VHF repeater - a single-frequency real-time relay system |
| K4XL's Boat Anchor Manuals Archive - radio sets & test equipment |
| | Unterlagen der Funk- u. Radargeräte der Deutschen Wehrmacht bis 1945 - Werner Gierlach, DL6VW |
| | Funkempfänger der Fernmeldeaufklärung in den Aufbaujahren der Bundeswehr |
| | Kleinfunksprecher d (KlFuSpr.d) "Dorette" - the WW2 German Army's VHF manpack set |
| | The V1 "Buzz Bomb" ("Doodlebug"), including its radio guidance system - courtesy Göran Jansson |
| | Frank's Electron Tube Pages |
| | Frank's Electron Tube Data Sheets |
| Vacuum Tube Cross-Reference and Substitution List |
| | TB 11-2627-2 Cross-Index of Army VT Numbers and Commercial Numbers - U.S. tubes only |
| One Electron: Military Radio Equipment Manuals and Schematics |
| MIL-STD-188-141B: Interoperability & Performance Standards for MF/HF Radio Systems |
| Das Gürtelpeilgerät - the WW2 belt-worn direction-finder used to hunt agent sets |
| | Foundation for German communication and related technologies |
| British Military Timepieces 1870 - 1970 |
| | The South African Fuchs B25 HF Manpack - derived from the French Thomson TRC300 |
| | Brian Carling's Boat-anchor Directory - including military radio links |
| | Dave Zantow's Radio Receiver Page - including WJ and other premium HF receivers |
| | Stoddart and the Radio Research Receiver - by Harold Layer, KK6HY |
| | Rugby Radio Station (British Telecom) Tower demolition video |
| | H2S Mk 9A Navigation and Bombing System NBS - fitted to RAF V-bombers Victor, Valiant and Vulcan |
| | Designing the Giant Antennas - a paper by AA4QY on VLF Submarine Comms |
| | The Wizard War: WW2 & The Origins Of Radar by Greg Goebel |
| | Introduction To Radar Technology by Greg Goebel |
| | FM, Land-Mobile Radio and the Amateur Radio Service - a brief history |
| | German WW2 Radio Technology - a presentation given to the North Shore ARC |
| | German WW2 SIGINT/COMINT - a presentation given to the North Shore ARC |
| | German WW2 Radar - a presentation given to the North Shore ARC Magnetron Note |
| | German WW2 ECM - - a presentation given to the North Shore ARC |
| | From FuG 3 to CR100 & T1154/R1155: Erich Zepler, a major contributor to WW2 military radio |
| | The Wizard War: WW2 & The Origins Of Radar |
| | HF Propagation & Clandestine Communications in WW2 by Brian Austin G0GSF (by kind permission of Radio Bygones) |
| | Communications at the Battle of Arnhem - a white paper by John Berry |
| | Ray Robinson's Manuals Page - downloadable military radio manuals |
| | Weather Station "Kurt" - a German WW2 installation in Newfoundland! |
| | OLIVE-DRAB.com - Military Information HQ (click Equipment for radios) |
| | The Air War over the Netherlands (in Dutch, some German & English) |
| | Huff-Duff: HF/DF (High-Frequency Direction Finding) in the Royal Navy |
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| | Cryptology & Computing |
| | Cracking the Enigma Code |
| | Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II |
| | German Codebreaking of WW2 |
| | Bletchley Park - National Codes Centre |
| | The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park |
| | Bletchley Park in WW2 |
| | Colossus |
| | First Nations (Native American) Crypto The Codetalkers |
| | The US Army Signal Corps' SIGSALY System |
| | US Code Breakers in WW2 |
| | Cryptologic Technology - the Canadian Military Communications & Electronics Museum |
| | World War II: Intelligence |
| | Jerry Proc's Crypto Site The Japanese PURPLE Code More on PURPLE |
| | Code Breakers at Wheaton College, Illinois |
| | WW2 Code Breaking - courtesy G. Becea |
| | German Cipher Machines video |
| | The Russian FIALKA Crypto Machine |
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Copyright © 1999 - 2013 A. Farson (including photo). All rights reserved. Last updated: 09/25/2019 |
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