Military Radio Links

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Linked pages are in English, unless otherwise indicated by flag icon.
Museums, Societies and Publications
North America
HMCS Haida: Wireless Office
  Defence Electronics History Society
William L. Howard 's Homepage & Technical Intelligence Museum
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications & Computation (SMECC) Proximity Fuse History
Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada (S.P.A.R.C.) Museum
  The Hammond Museum of Radio
The Maritime Radio Historical Society - San Francisco, CA
History of Communications-Electronics in the U.S. Navy by Capt. L. S. Howeth, USN (Ret.)
The W9CF T-Network Antenna Tuner Simulator
HF-ALE - document approved for public release
The W9CF Transmission Line Calculator and other useful items
Army Radios eGroup - read messages (members only), or sign up
Google Directory of Military Surplus Radio
A History of the U.S. Quartz Crystal Industry - civilian and military applications
Tom Perera W1TP's Museum - Telegraph Keys, Enigma Crypto Machines, etc.
  Radiomilitari - Antonio Fucci's museum of military/spy radios & tubes
   
U.K. & Europe
  Pye Telecom History Group - Virtual Pye Museum
  Royal Signals Museum and RSARS
Duxford Radio Society - Imperial War Museum, Duxford, England
Signals Collection '40-'45 (The Netherlands)
  PA0PZD's WW2 Signals Collection
Surplus Radio Society (The Netherlands - English & Dutch)
The National Valve (Tube) Museum - information on  British military (CV) and civilian tubes
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
UKW-Berichte (VHF Communications) - German RF-engineering magazine for radio amateurs
Seefunk + Seeschiffahrt (Maritime Radio in the German Merchant Marine)
Museum für historische Wehrtechnik (Museum of Historic Military Technology)
  Marconi marine radio aboard Shaw Savill ships
Links for the PRC2000 HF Manpack
The Excite U.K. Military Radio Links Page - many interesting links
Martin Loach's Strowger Appreciation Site - a fascinating look at older U.K. telephone exchanges
  Bob's Telephone File - more UK telephony
  The Telecommunications Heritage Group (UK)
  Sam's Telecomms Index  (UK)
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
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)
  The WS19 eGroup - read messages (members only), or sign up
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
  The story of RADAR development - a brief overview of British WW2 radar
  HF Telecommunications - Poldhu to Telstar by Paul Hawkins
   
Australia & Asia
Ray Robinson's Restored Radio Museum
Steve Hill's Radio Museum, Brisbane, Australia
Kurrajong Radio Museum
The Airways Museum, Victoria - including radio comm/nav & radar
The Yokohama WWII Japanese Military Radio Museum (in Japanese, with some English)
The Kanagawa Signal Group (in Japanese, with a few headings in English)
Australian Military Communications in Vietnam (PDF)

Collectors (North America)
An interesting ARC-5 site
Militaryradio.com - Don, W5OR's Military Radio Site. Also see: Spy Radio
U.S. Military Radio Database Lookup
  U.S. Military Portable Radios
Tactical Link Systems - an excellent Military and Tactical Communications site
Brooke, N6GCE's PRC-68 Radio, PRC-68 Products, Military and Mil. Surplus Personal Home Pages
W2EC's Collins, Military and "BA" Site
WB6FZH Classic & Military Radio
  AC7ZL's BC-348 Restoration Page
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
West Coast Military Radio Collectors' Group
Military Radio Collectors' Group  - photos by Richard Dillman, W6AWO
  Phil's AN/GRR-5 HF Receiver Page
  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
  The PRC-319 Group
Sheltered Communications Systems Restoration Site - Rockwell-Collins AN/TSC-60 & others

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
  PA8PDP's Racal Pages
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
  G4MSF, Keith Watt's Vintage Radio Collection
G4NCE's Vintage Military Wireless Collection
EI9GQ Homebrew Radio Page
Rod Beavon's Radio Pages - including British Army radios of  WW2
  The Boatanchor Collection - military, amateur and commercial communications receivers
Menno, PE1LDZ's Military Surplus Radio Site - with many links to European dealers
Wammes Witkop's Green Radios Page - lots of  SEM-25 information
Ragnar Otterstad  LA5HE - German and British milradio images
Bo Samuelsson's Vintage Radio Site  (in Swedish & English)
Helge, LA6NCA's Radio Collection - including German WW2 gear, in Norwegian & 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) 
  Vladimir Desyatnik's German WW2 Radio Site
IKØXCC's Surplus Page - in Italian, with links to European surplus dealers
IZ1FID's Military Radio Database
Dr. Martin Boesch's Radio Pages - consumer and commercial receivers (in German)
Profi-Empfänger Siemens E 311 (auf deutsch)
Empfänger E52b "Köln" - ein Spitzengerät aus den 1940er-Jahren
  Bo Samuelsson's E52 "Köln" Restoration
VHF Intercept Receiver Fu.H.E.v. "Viktor" - German WW2 radio engineering at its best
Boatanchors.de - German post-WW2 tube-type communications and domestic receivers (in English)
Greenradios.de - DH4PY's Military Radio Pages
Wim van der Zwan PA3BVT - collector of  surplus radio equipment
The IKØMOZ "Gray-Green" Radio Pages - Italian WW2 radio and communications equipment
fernmeldeamt.de  - Not quite wireless, but...a fascinating German telephone collector site
DJ2EI's Clandestine Radio Site - in German and English
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
Mirko, S52PC - Old Radio Collection, including Western, USSR and Yugoslav military radios
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
Alain Malchair's Military Radio Pages - in French
cqham.ru USSR Military Tube Transistor Radio Gallery - unique images of Soviet-era military & civilian radios
  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
Fitted for Radio - a German site for tactical radio gear and Land-Rovers

Collectors (Australia, New Zealand, Asia)
VK2DYM's Military Radio & Radar Information Site
Kurrajong Radio Museum
Ray Robinson's Restored Radio Museum
Ray Robinson's Australian Radios and Information Pages
Australian A510 HF Manpack:  Development   Photos   Comparisons
Simon, VK2UA's Radio and R1155 & T1154 Information Pages
  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

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

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, U.K.  Click on Your Articles for some fascinating reading!
  Milradio - a well-illustrated UK dealer site
Baco Army Goods B.V., The Netherlands
Combat Radio Co. (U.K.)
  Precious Things On-Line (U.K.)
  Professional Army Sales (U.K.)
Radiosurplus-Elettronica an interesting Italian surplus resource

Dealers (Asia)
B.M. Company, Japan (Japanese/English, including RT-662/GRC-106 LSB Mod)

Technical Documentation and Information
Fort Gordon Signal Museum - list of commercial radio equipment used during WWII
Milspec Communication Canada - Richard Lacroix's Military Communications Home Page
  Terry O'Laughlin's CEI & Watkins Johnson Information Site (including Racal)
Richard, G7RVI's WS31 Page - mirror site
Tom Norris, KA4RKT's Military Commo Equipment List
  Brooke Clarke, N6GCE's PRC-25/77 Page
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
  Frank's Electron Tube Pages
  Frank's Electron Tube Data Sheets
Don Adamson's "VT" Tube Cross-Reference List - U.S. tubes only
U.S. Military VT/Commercial Tube Table
One Electron:  Military Radio Equipment Manuals and Schematics
MIL-STD-188-141B: Interoperability & Performance Standards for MF/HF Radio Systems
Das Gurtelpeilgerät - 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 (mirror)
  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
  FM, Land-Mobile Radio and the Amateur Radio Service - a brief history
  German WW2 Radio Technology - a presentation given to the North Shore ARC

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