[Premium-Rx] Watkins Johnson... crazy? like a fox!

[Les Locklear]

Interesting that my old "Stutz Bearcat" Hammarlund SP-600 with a product detector can always hear what those receivers hear with much better audio recovery and with much less expense.

YMMV

Les Locklear
Drake R8B
Hammarlund HQ-150
Hammarlund HQ-180A
Hammarlund SP-600 Re-Engineered by John R. Leary
Ten Tec RX-350



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: watkins-johnson at terryo.org 
  To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:37 PM
  Subject: [Premium-Rx] Watkins Johnson... crazy? like a fox!


  Watkins-Johnson did not make radio models to stock store shelves or please
  radio hobbyists.  They designed and built boxes for agencies to pursue
  their COMINT and SIGINT missions.

  If they developed a platform, like the 871x series, they assembled each
  version to tweak it for the performance the government customers
  requested.  They also built small batches and sometimes single radios that
  you will never see.

  WJ radios are race cars.  National security issues always insure whatever
  you own is 3-4 generations behind state of the art (The 871x is about 7
  generations back).   If you can't handle old race cars, you can always go
  back to toddling around with glitzy sedans from Amateur Electronics
  Supply.

  Terry O'
  http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org

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