Please Help Support This Research

Direct Donations

Donations to support the research and the web publication of materials can be made directly through PayPal. I'd appreciate any donations to help pay for web hosting fees for the large and growing collection of big manual files and for other research expenses.

Your support is appreciated

I am an emeritus professor at a technical college and ineligible for many of the grants accessible to university faculty. Except for a large donation from Dick Johnson, a co-founder of Watkins-Johnson, and many smaller, but much appreciated donations, my work has been entirely self-funded.

I have done hundreds of hours of oral interviews, spent countless hours in libraries and archives, both public and private. I've traveled to both coasts many times and driven several routes through the eastern half of the US meeting former employees. I have interviewed former empoyees in England and Germany and purchased a cubic meter of WJ documents from the estate of the head technician at the former WJ office in Bonn. I have uncovered enough to know the broad outlines and many specific vignettes of how surveillance radios played a vital role in the Cold War. Given adequate time and resources, I will write a book documenting this history.

Equipment and Document Sales

My interest in this research grew directly out of years of restoring equipment made by the companies mentioned on these web pages. The research has thoroughly captured my interest, allowing little or no time for working on equipment. I am selling off equipment and duplicates paperwork to raise funds to continue my research.

I rarely ship to any address outside the United States. ITAR regulations covered a significant amount of this equipment and these documents. It is not worth the hassle of dealing with overseas shipping. Overseas buyers should be aware that using a US agent for transshipping is no guarantee of success. I have sold equipment that encountered problems when the transhipper tried to ship overseas. Overseas buyers please note, once any item has been successfully shipped to a US address, it is fully your property and any problems encountered are yours, the transaction on my end is complete.

What you will see listed if you click on the links below are the only things I have for sale. I am dispersing the remnants of a 30 year hardware hobby that has faded into the background. I am not a dealer or broker.

Please do not contact me seeking other items. Please do not request that I maintain a wish list or seek things out for you. I am well aware of how rare this equipment is and how difficult it is to locate printed information like manuals. My research does not allow time to respond to any e-mails other than to disperse things superfluous to my needs.