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CB Radios And Antennas, Marine Radios, Scanners, Radar Detectors. Online store and repair service

Australian dealer for UHF CB radios, Amateur Radio HF VHF Radios, GPS navigation systems, two-way radio, cordless telephones, radar detectors, marine electronics, amateur radio gear and many other consumer electronic products.

Amplifiers, filters, attenuators, mixers, PLL, switches and frequency dividers, signal generators, power detectors, transimpedance amplifiers, variable gain amplifiers and more

The TECLA Thirty, an early wireless age crystal set, is featured among a gallery of over 100 collectible headphones, with detailed close-up photos of vintage models. Several pages offer vintage headphones for sale, including Brandes, Baldwin, and Western Electric, suitable for crystal set use or collecting. Construction details are provided for a reproduction KILBOURNE AND CLARKE crystal set, built with vintage 1920s parts and featuring a miniature variable condenser for fine tuning. The resource also presents a project for a simple crystal radio and a 1-tube amplifier, complete with a schematic and component diagram, suitable for driving a horn speaker or amplifying weak signals for headphones. Instructions for mounting argentiferous galena detector crystals are included, along with information on MRL Handbooks covering crystal detectors and modern diodes. Additional projects include a 2A3 single-ended triode tube amplifier and two stereo tube amps using 12AX7, 6V6, 5Y3G, 6SN7, VT-25, and 5U4G tubes.

Valon Technology designs and manufacturers low cost, reliable radio frequency products such as RF Synthesizer modules, RF Frequency Dividers and Phase Gain Detectors. Main markets are military/defense, test engineering, radio astronomy, research centers and universities

Early 20th-century transatlantic wireless communication efforts involved distinct technical approaches by Reginald Fessenden and Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi's systems, operational until approximately 1912, primarily utilized _spark technology_ for wireless telegraphy, facilitating Morse code communication between ships and across oceans. His Poldhu station in December 1901 radiated signals in the MF band around 850 kHz, later evolving to 272 kHz in October 1902, and eventually 45 kHz by late 1907 with increasingly larger antenna structures like the pyramidal monopole and capacitive top-loaded arrays. Fessenden, conversely, focused on _continuous wave transmission_ for wireless telephony, recognizing its necessity for speech. His transatlantic experiments in 1906 employed synchronous rotary-spark-gap transmitters and 420-foot umbrella top-loaded antennas at Brant Rock, MA, and Machrihanish, Scotland, tuned to approximately 80 kHz. Fessenden later utilized the _Alexanderson HF alternator_ at 75 kHz by late 1906 for pure CW transmission, integrating a carbon microphone for amplitude modulation. Receiver technology also differed, with Marconi initially relying on untuned coherer-type detectors, later developing the magnetic detector in 1902, while Fessenden's CW approach necessitated more advanced detection methods.