[Premium-Rx] Mason Eng Model A-2 Receiver

[John Miles]

> 	These radios were very common in the 60s and 70s and on into the
> 80s in government agencies for TSCM (searching for bugs).  I suppose a
> few were also used to receive the output of a bug as well...  but their
> basic mission was searching for and identifying bugs and related
> signals.. sweeping an area to see that is not bugged and safe for
> classified conversations.
>
> 	You might try Jim Atkinson's TSCM.com site for more information
> on this and related topics...  folks there and associated with the gmail
> TSCM mailing list could probably tell you many war stories and much more
> about the thing.

Also see this nifty brochure, "Listening In: Electronic Eavesdropping in the
Cold War Era":

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/107507.pdf (4.3 MB)

It mentions Mason and W-J intercept equipment briefly.

-- john, KE5FX