VMARS LINKS
V.M.A.R.S.

 

The Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society

Links to other sites of interest


Wireless for the Warrior A most informative and user friendly site, this is the website of Louis Meulstee ("Wireless for the Warrior")

 The British Army Royal Signals Museum Located at the Royal School of Signals, Blandford, Dorset, UK.

SRS (Surplus Radio Society) In Dutch, with a fair sprinkling of English, and with many Links relevant to VMARS.

www.qsl.net/ve3bdb/ The Wireless Sets No.19 pages. Just has to be the page for the enthusiasts of the most famous of all military radios.

www.hypertools.com Dave Ross's Military Radio Pages.

Boatanchors Webring Lots of interesting sites here.

www.heathkit-museum.com Heathkit Virtual Museum.

www.WA3KEY.com/collins.html Collins gear.

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/ Boatanchors pictures.

G4NCE The homepage of G4NCE's site, featuring his extensive collection of military radio equipment.

The Bunker The recovery of an ET-4336 transmitter as featured in VMARS newsletter issue 9.

Keith's Racal Page Several fascinating pages of info and pictures for the Racal fan. RECOMMENDED!

Radio Byegones Magazine Carries articles on restoration of vintage wireless equipment.

ACF/CCF radio   Interesting reminiscences of times in the Cadet forces by Brian carling AF4K

The National Valve Museum A virtual museum of the Valve, with information on the rebuilding of "Colossus", and data sheets on many types. Well worth a look.

G4PMY  The homepage of member G4PMY, including the restoration of a Russian R161A-2M communications truck

RAF Henlow Signals Museum Pictures and info on this museum.

Bletchley Park The home of 'Station X', Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society, Colossus and a whole lot of other fascinating exhibits.

The AM Window.  Amateur AM in the States.

Crawley Amateur Radio Club Articles on aspects of Vintage Radio from the Club Newsletter

http://home.hetnet.nl/~nuilre/index.html  A collection of German, English, Canadian and American WW2 signalling Equipment 
by Peter, PA0PZD.
 

The Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society Membership of The Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society (RSARS) is open to anyone interested in amateur radio and who has completed service with the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom or certain other countries or is currently serving.

http://www.tubecollector.org/ All you need to know about valves or 'tubes'.

 The Muckleburgh Collection  Displays of vintage army, navy, air force, and other communications equipment, including visual signalling and the electric telegraph. Opening days/times, etc, on website. The North Norfolk Amateur Radio Group operate from this site.

North Norfolk Amateur Radio Group Operate regularly from 'The Muckleburgh Collection', above.

 Thorpe Camp Radio Museum  Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, location of M0TCM.

Museum of Radar and Communications   HMS Collingwood.

Clem's Wireless Set No. 11 Page   WS11 Information from VK3CYD

The Kurrajong Radio Museum  Another site from 'Down Under'

Signals Collection '40 - '45    Paul Bodifee's collection in Daventer, Holland.

Radiomuseum.org  A large collection of information operated from Switzerland by  HB9RXQ

Canadian Museum site of SPARC - Society for the Preservation of Antique Radio in Canada

Canadian Marconi Company - Documentation of Radio Equipment produced by the Canadian Marconi Company 
during the valve era.

G3YUH.   Amateur Radio lives on, and the story of the rescue of another RT320 from destruction. Also Ron's WS18 project.

The Heathkit Story  A Heathkit enthusiast's site in English and Swedish.

RKK -Museum Russian Radio Museum in Moscow

SRDE  Technical history of SRDE - a UK Government establishment for research and development of 
military communications.

Personal Museum of Military Radio - Spy Radio - Tubes by Antonio Fucci Fano (Italy)

Tatjana van Vark Collection includes V Bomber H2SMk9A and Navigation, Bombing and Computer NBC

Vintage Avionics - the AN/ARN21

PRC319 Group - FAQs and Manuals

Jan Corver Museum.  Cypher machines and Vintage Radio.

Radista - A web presentation of radio and other telecommunications equipment used by the Yugoslav People's army from 1945 to 1991.

LA6NCA - A remarkable collection of German wireless equipment from WW2 (Norwegian language)

www.ig-uem.ch/  Swiss vintage military radio site.

IRMA Inventory of old military French radio sets from 1900 - 1960

History of the national HRO receiver by Barry Williams KD5VC

Crypto Machine Menu page  If you are interested in Cypher, try this one.

Eddystone Users Group - All things Eddystone including many downloadable manuals.

Historic US Navy site    US Navy communications in the 1950s and 1960s, by K4NYW