[Premium-Rx] Index to version of the WJ family of DSP Receiver (i.e. WJ-8711 family)

[Terry O']

A significant revision of the index to internal parts and firmware for 
the Watkins-Johnson DSP series of receivers (i.e. WJ-8711 family) is now 
maintained on my Watkins-Johnson website.

I've exhausted every document and radio I own to develop the document 
section of this index. For continued expansion, this project is now 
dependent on information sent by owners of these fine radios or from 
documents they have for them. Information from manuals covering earlier 
non-A versions of the HF-1000, WJ-8711, and WJ-8712 or any version of 
the WJ-8723 would be particularly useful.  Many thanks to those who have 
already sent information.  If you submit information and do not want 
your name and or call included, please let me know.

If you are willing to contribute, the most useful way is to pop the top 
cover of your radio and copy the numbers you can find on controller 
board for U1 (68HC11*** processor), U12 (processor EPROM, U37 
(DSP5600****), and U56 (DSP EPROM) as well as the model and serial 
number from the rear panels. If in doubt, copy all the numbers on these 
components and I'll sort them out.

The easiest way to contribute if you own a WJ-8711 or WJ-8712P, is to 
copy the firmware number, which displays at boot up. Also copy the model 
and serial number from the rear panel.

The board numbers are very useful. There are WJ boards floating around. 
Being able to identify them and knowing what and where they can be used 
will help populate the pool of available components for maintaining 
these now discontinued receivers.

The board numbers can be found along the edge of the circuit boards and 
typically start with 14632ASSY followed by a 7xxxxx or 9xxxxx (14632 
being the CAGE code identifying the manufacturer, i.e. WJ). On several 
versions, the board ID numbers are along the rear edge.

If you have copied the hex or bin files for the two (or 3) EPROMs U12 
and U56 (and front panel A1), I am quietly assembling a library of 
firmware. Once the question of intellectual property is resolved, I may 
be able to post these on the website. Currently for U12 I have 
v04.01.01, v04.01.03, v04.01.10 and for U56 v03.00.01, v04.02.05, 
v04.02.07 and for A1 v3.1.21 and v3.2.0.

Please note that a driving factor in all this is documenting which 
firmware versions can be used in which versions of the radios. Though 
the last versions, v04.01.10 and v04.02.07, are widely considered to be 
be the most desirable, many of the older boards and radios will not work 
with these versions.

The current version of this WJ-8711 family option list can downloaded 
for free from http://Watkins-Johnson.terryo.org. 
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It is in the table under "Option Lists."