[Milsurplus] Westrex 900B

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Craig wrote:

> Did a Google and came up blank. What is it and where was it used?
> 
> Thanks

I've been looking at that too. It is a four channel HF transceiver, uses 3 
6146s in the final amp. Has built-in provisions for RTTY, AM, FM, SSB, 
AME, ISB, etc.

All tubes.

The trouble is that Westrex manuals are nearly impossible to find.

I have a Westrex 6010B receiver, which is FAR advanced for its time. It 
took me over a year to find a manual for it, and it was only through the 
kindness of a member of our list that I got one.

Turns out that most of the Westrex 6010 receivers were used by the 
FBI and the CIA. Mine MAY have been used by the USCG. Mine is 
substantially complete.

The Westrex 6010B has a built-in RTTY converter, a product detector 
for SSB, and receives AM, FM, CW, RTTY, SSB, ISB, AME, all in a 6" 
tall rack mount receiver with built-in power supply.

The ones that the fellow who got me that manual ended up with were 
previously owned by the FBI and when they surplused them, they 
removed and destroyed the 20 channel turret, possibly in an effort to 
eliminate any evidence concerning what frequencies they were 
communicating on. He has been searching for a turret ever since and 
has not found one yet.

I have hesitated bidding on that Westrex 900B transceiver ONLY 
because the manuals are possibly non-existent.

I tried to track Westrex down, and found that it was bought by some 
well known areospace company, whose name I have at the moment 
forgotten. I contacted them. They, however, had NO Westrex manuals, 
all having been destroyed shortly after they aquired the company.

Ken W7EKB