[Premium-Rx] Premium-Rx Digest, Vol 98, Issue 4
Daniel C. Baral
danielbaral at comcast.net
Tue Jan 27 00:51:50 EST 2015
what a waste...de W3DCB
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| 1. Re: WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed (Peter Gottlieb)
| 2. Re: WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed (Gary Geissinger)
| 3. Re: WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed (jlchapman2 at juno.com)
| 4. Re: WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed (Mark Rauchfuss)
| 5. Re: WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed (Walter Salmaniw)
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| Message: 1
| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:38:28 -0500
| From: Peter Gottlieb <hpnpilot at gmail.com>
| To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
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| That's a shame, end of an era.
| On 1/26/2015 2:29 PM, Steve Pappin via Premium-Rx wrote:
| > It's official: DRS / Watkins-Johnson Gaithersburg MD is closed. Everything
| > is
| > gone. According to Chris Biddix they scrapped everything, hardware,
| > replacement parts, demo units, chassis, and all of the printed material. If
| > it
| > was physical it was either crushed or incinerated. Chris is going to ask if
| > any of it went to surplus dealers but we doubt it. I placed a bid on the
| > demo
| > units last year but management decided that the liability was too great.
| > All
| > that remains of WJ is intellectual property. The building is up for sale.
| > There will be no more new factory replacement parts for WJ radios.
| >
| > DRS will continue to build the new radios for UAV's and Command Centers.
| > None
| > of them have front panels! So any new radios offered will be:
| > a. Expensive
| > b. Network Appliances controlled by host computers
| > c. Require system integration
| >
| > Best Regards,
| > Steve
| >
| > ---
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| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:45:06 +0000
| From: Gary Geissinger <ggeissinger at digitalglobe.com>
| To: "premium-rx at mailman.qth.net" <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
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| Steve,
| Thanks for the bad (and seemingly inevitable) news. It's good to know from a
| planning perspective but it hurts inside.
| Kind of reminds me of when Fujitsu decided to discontinue its line of
| Ultra-High-Speed ECL logic. They kept no parts of any kind. All parts in
| all phases of manufacture will take behind the building and crushed.
| Too bad there wasn't a "broker" who could have stepped in and obtained the
| spare parts like the guys who resell obsolete ICs. If one of my receivers
| should need a new switch or other part I'd be happy to pay real money for
| it.
| Gary WA0SPM, member US Army MARS
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Premium-Rx [mailto:premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
| Peter Gottlieb
| Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 2:38 PM
| To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
| That's a shame, end of an era.
| On 1/26/2015 2:29 PM, Steve Pappin via Premium-Rx wrote:
| > It's official: DRS / Watkins-Johnson Gaithersburg MD is closed.
| > Everything is gone. According to Chris Biddix they scrapped
| > everything, hardware, replacement parts, demo units, chassis, and all
| > of the printed material. If it was physical it was either crushed or
| > incinerated. Chris is going to ask if any of it went to surplus
| > dealers but we doubt it. I placed a bid on the demo units last year
| > but management decided that the liability was too great. All that remains
| > of WJ is intellectual property. The building is up for sale.
| > There will be no more new factory replacement parts for WJ radios.
| >
| > DRS will continue to build the new radios for UAV's and Command
| > Centers. None of them have front panels! So any new radios offered will be:
| > a. Expensive
| > b. Network Appliances controlled by host computers c. Require system
| > integration
| >
| > Best Regards,
| > Steve
| >
| > ---
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| >
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| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:22:23 GMT
| From: "jlchapman2 at juno.com" <jlchapman2 at juno.com>
| To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
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| That's a shame. I had hoped to eventually obtain one. But such is not the
| case now. John C
| ---------- Original Message ----------
| From: Steve Pappin via Premium-Rx <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
| To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
| Subject: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:29:54 -0800
| It's official: DRS / Watkins-Johnson Gaithersburg MD is closed. Everything
| is gone. According to Chris Biddix they scrapped everything, hardware,
| replacement parts, demo units, chassis, and all of the printed material. If
| it was physical it was either crushed or incinerated. Chris is going to ask
| if any of it went to surplus dealers but we doubt it. I placed a bid on the
| demo units last year but management decided that the liability was too
| great. All that remains of WJ is intellectual property. The building is up
| for sale. There will be no more new factory replacement parts for WJ radios.
| DRS will continue to build the new radios for UAV's and Command Centers.
| None of them have front panels! So any new radios offered will be:
| a. Expensive
| b. Network Appliances controlled by host computers
| c. Require system integration
| Best Regards,
| Steve
| ---
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| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:51:44 -0500
| From: Mark Rauchfuss <whitetank at gmail.com>
| To: "jlchapman2 at juno.com" <jlchapman2 at juno.com>
| Cc: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
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| Which one? There are so many examples to own.
| There is such a large parc of used receivers to select from and from which
| spares will continue to be available well beyond many of our lives...
| Mark,
| N7MSR
| On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:22 PM, jlchapman2 at juno.com <jlchapman2 at juno.com>
| wrote:
| > That's a shame. I had hoped to eventually obtain one. But such is not
| > the case now. John C
| >
| > ---------- Original Message ----------
| > From: Steve Pappin via Premium-Rx <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
| > To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
| > Subject: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
| > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:29:54 -0800
| >
| > It's official: DRS / Watkins-Johnson Gaithersburg MD is closed. Everything
| > is gone. According to Chris Biddix they scrapped everything, hardware,
| > replacement parts, demo units, chassis, and all of the printed material. If
| > it was physical it was either crushed or incinerated. Chris is going to ask
| > if any of it went to surplus dealers but we doubt it. I placed a bid on the
| > demo units last year but management decided that the liability was too
| > great. All that remains of WJ is intellectual property. The building is up
| > for sale. There will be no more new factory replacement parts for WJ
| > radios.
| >
| > DRS will continue to build the new radios for UAV's and Command Centers.
| > None of them have front panels! So any new radios offered will be:
| > a. Expensive
| > b. Network Appliances controlled by host computers
| > c. Require system integration
| >
| > Best Regards,
| > Steve
| >
| >
| > ---
| > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
| > http://www.avast.com
| >
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| Message: 5
| Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:14:44 -0800
| From: Walter Salmaniw <canswl at gmail.com>
| To: Steve Pappin <pappy92651 at yahoo.com>, premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
| Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] WJ / DRS Gaithersburg is closed
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| What a shame, and IMHO almost a crime. To just incinerate and bulldoze
| such a wealth of the best of American technology is crazy. It brings to
| mind what happened here in Canada to the AVRO Arrow interceptor which back
| in 1959 was destroyed, including all the blueprints and 5 fully completed
| airframes and 20 partially built airframes. Shame on them! Walt
| Salmaniw, Victoria, BC
| On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Steve Pappin via Premium-Rx <
| premium-rx at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
| > It's official: DRS / Watkins-Johnson Gaithersburg MD is closed. Everything
| > is gone. According to Chris Biddix they scrapped everything, hardware,
| > replacement parts, demo units, chassis, and all of the printed material. If
| > it was physical it was either crushed or incinerated. Chris is going to ask
| > if any of it went to surplus dealers but we doubt it. I placed a bid on the
| > demo units last year but management decided that the liability was too
| > great. All that remains of WJ is intellectual property. The building is up
| > for sale. There will be no more new factory replacement parts for WJ
| > radios.
| >
| > DRS will continue to build the new radios for UAV's and Command Centers.
| > None of them have front panels! So any new radios offered will be:
| > a. Expensive
| > b. Network Appliances controlled by host computers
| > c. Require system integration
| >
| > Best Regards,
| > Steve
| >
| > ---
| > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
| > http://www.avast.com
| >
| > ______________________________________________________________
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| >
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