[Premium-Rx] Watkins Johnson WJ-9114 VXI receiver card

[David I. Emery]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:21:15PM -0400, David I. Emery wrote:
> 	Anyone care to send me (either publicly or privately via email)
> any documentation, spec sheets, manuals, pointers to software, etc for a
> 1990s era Watkins Johnson WJ-9114 VXI receiver card ?
> 
> 	And does anyone care to comment about what systems and purpose
> this card was engineered for ?
> 
> 	Yes, I grabbed *that* one (for far too much).

	As a rather disturbing development (first time it has ever happened
to me) when I went to leave feedback, the Ebay seller:

	Universal Computers, LLC
	8483 Lanham Severn RD
	#202	
	Seabrook, MD 20706

	Doing business as "unvcomputersllc"

	Had been pulled and listings, including the one for the item
I bought, removed.

	For the record I did receive the card today ... and it *looks* OK.

	And yes, as is obvious, I bought it on speculation without knowing
a lot about it - I am aware of the WJ line of HF and VHF/UHF VXI receivers
and tuners, but I was actually not able to find any data about this one
other than that it seemed likely to be a member of the same family.
And as it so happened I bid just a teensy bit more than the guy I seem to
have outbid (but not by very much) and won it somewhat to my surprise.

	And like many others on this list, I find such curios on Ebay
and at hamfests hard to resist, though I often don't have much idea of
what they are when I buy them (or more properly a *SPECIFIC* and
detailed idea of what they are).   Mostly I find them amusing bits of
very collectible  exotic, but usually not quite current, technology to
play with a bit and study, rather than something I will actually have an
important use for, but you never know...

-- 
  Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
"An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in 
celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."