Astro Communication Labs
Pioneer in solid-state surveillance
receivers founded by CEI engineers
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Apcom
Surveillance receiver
systems and accessories
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Applied Communications
Acquires Norlin Communications to enter the surveillance radio market |
Clarke Instruments
Where the Cold War history of
surveillance radios begins
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Communication Electronics, Inc - CEI
The pre-eminent Cold War surveillance receiver company founded by Ralph Grimm |
Cubic Communications
Interesting radios from a solid competitor |
Defense Electronics, Inc
Founded by engineers who fled Nems-Clarke as Vitro
acquired and sank it
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R. L. Drake, Co
Limited forays into the
surveillance market |
E-Systems
Absorbed Ling-Tempo-Vought (LTV) and their aerial surveillance platforms
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General Electronics Laboratories
Cambridge, MA based telemetry
receiver manufacturer
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Harris RF Communications
Turning a Racal USA design into a
communication workhorse |
Interad Limited
Radio company
started by former
Watkins-Johnson employees
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Ling-Temco-Vought
Systems integrator using custom equipment made by CEI (and others) for aerial surveillance platforms |
F. G. Mason Engineering
Custom shop producing quirky
equipment for clandestine uses |
Micro-Tel
Wideband surveillance receiver company |
Nems-Clarke
Designed and manufactured first
surveillance receivers |
Norlin Communications
Interesting radios from
a short-lived competitor
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Racal USA
Esteemed UK radio firm
makes a foray into US market |
Reaction Instruments
Fascinating equipment from
a short-lived competitor |
Ralph. E. Grimm, Co
Last gasp for a giant in
the
surveillance radio industry |
Rohde und Schwarz
Not a player in US agency market but a tough competitor for foreign contracts
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SciComm
Short-lived competitor owned by
Andrew Government Products
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Vitro Electronics
Nems-Clarke after conglomerate takeover (engineers flee and start many new successful companies)
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Watkins-Johnson
West Coast microwave tube company diversifies into radios and becomes highly respected in the industry |
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WJ Communication Electronics Technology
East Coast division of WJ built on the acquisition of Ralph Grimm's CEI
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