Links to Boatanchors, Communications Receivers, and Electronics sites

Last Updated August 31, 2008


AC6V Antique/Vintage Radio Links

Australian Military Radios from Colin MacKinnon, VK2DYM

Australian BoatAnchors. from Dave Prince, VK4KDP

Boatanchor Dreams (Jan Skirrow, VE7DJX's R-390 and R-390A site)

Boatanchors FAQ maintained by Nick England, KD4CPL.

Boatanchor Manual Archive, K4XL's BAMA

Boatanchor Pix from Rich Post

Boatanchor receiver reviews/stats/photos from www.dxing.com.

Canadian Military Communications and Electronics Museum

Fair Radio Sales, lots of military surplus comm gear and parts.

G4NCE's Vintage Military Wireless Collection.

German Boatanchors from Wolfgang Thelen and Gerd Niehaus.

Jim Garland's (W8ZR) Vintage Radio Collection.

Jose Gavila, EB5AGV/EC5AAU.  R390, SP600 and more...

The Hammarlund Historian

Hampedia -- An "encyclopedic" radio reference, BA and otherwise. Includes price history data...

K1DWU's Ham and Boatanchor Link List

Francesco Ledda's National and Collins radios...

Maritime Radio Historical Society, Liberty Ship consoles and KPH/Point Reyes revivals.

Military Communications from Richard Lacroix, VE3UVX. Includes Joint Electronics Designation System (JETDS).

Military Radios List and online manuals from Tom Norris

Modern receiver reviews/stats/photos from www.dxing.com.  The tube radios are here

Museum of Radio & Technology

Paul Anderson's boatanchors page. R-389, R-390, R-391, R-390A, R-392, and many others.

Premium Grade Receivers. Pricey, rare, most are SS BAs.

R-390A FAQ Site

Teara's Vintage Radio Link Page

Ed Tanton's Homepage

Technical Material Corp (TMC) Page

Toronto Surplus, lots of neat stuff.....

US Navy Radio Equipment - 1950's and 1960's main page.   Transmitters, Receivers, switchboard and audio....

US Navy Receivers - 1950's and 1960's page.

Ray Vasek's Radio Page. Very nice photos.

Watkins-Johnson (and CEI) Historical Data. Very nice radios.....

Western Historic Radio Museum. Nice photos of both communications and entertainment radios.


Circuit, Antenna Simulation, and General Scientific Software

GAEL -- GNOME Assisted Electronics.  The successor and assign of Oregano....

Ngspice mixed-level circuit simulator, based on Spice3f5, Cider1b1, and Xspice.

gEDA GPL's suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.   gEDA has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2008 project!

Biro's paper describing how to make tube Spice models.

Radau5's Tube Spice Fit Technique

Francesco Pintavalle's Tube Model Page   Moving to http://audibleillusion.org "soon".

XCircuit -- an X11 circuit drawing and netlist program.

Numerical Electromagnetics Code NEC2 Page

Unofficial NEC2 Archives

ElectroMagnetic Modeling


Rovero Research Radio Page