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

[Steve Pappin]

Perhaps your coat hanger was cut to the wrong wavelength!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Les Locklear" <leslocklear at cableone.net>
To: <watkins-johnson at terryo.org>; <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Watkins Johnson... crazy? like a fox!


> 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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