[Premium-Rx] WJ website renovation and a new site

[Terry O']

I've created a new website to house all the non-WJ information that is 
piling up.  It's called Black Radios, for reasons that will be obvious 
to many of you.  It is pretty thin right now, but it has been structured 
to accommodate a large amount of information and stories I will be sharing.

http://BlackRadios.terryo.org

I'm also part way through revamping my WJ website, which was centered on 
the Gaithersburg division even though Watkins-Johnson was a much larger 
company with many interesting communication and electronics divisions.  
It will take a while to work all the bugs out as I started the site 18 
years ago and the internal structure has grown to be a mangled mess.

http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org

I am deeply saddened that I will not get to spend more time with Dick 
Johnson, who passed away Sunday.  I was looking forward to another visit 
after he could read my work in the wake of the long interviews and 
assistance he has given me.  It is ironic that I reached the point where 
the changes to my web publications were ready to start rolling out just 
as he passed away.

This research has eclipsed the time I had to tinker with radios.  As 
time allows and economic need dictates, I will be posting equipment, 
parts and documents for sale on my website.  My research expenses are 
substantial and I don't need to own this stuff to write about its 
history.  Something has to give as I need to get on with this work.  
Four former employees and now Dick Johnson, excellent sources I was 
fortunate to interview, have already gone into the ether. Time is 
clearly of the essence.

Please don't write to me asking for things.  I know you may feel 
desperate.  I know as well as anyone else how rare this equipment and 
documentation is, but I am unlikely to reply as I need to conserve my 
spare time to pursue this research.

Terry O'
watkins-johnson at terryo.org


P.S.  If all that interests you is WJ/CEI radios, the old site is more 
or less intact inside the new one at: 
http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org/WJ-CET-index.htm