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Collectors/collections

Alan Lord - vintage radio collection: Collection of radios, valves etc.
Cathode Ray Tube collection: Collection of CRTs, camera tubes etc.
Cathode Ray Tube site: Electronic glassware, history and equipment
Dieter's Nixie site: Nixie collection, projects etc.
Hans-Thomas Schmidt's collection: A fine collection and lots of data
Kilokat's antique light bulb and vacuum tube site: Collection of bulbs and valves
Mike's Electric Stuff: Valve collection plus lots of experiments
O'Neill's Electronic Museum: A collection of valves, radios, phono and telegraph equipment.
National Valve Museum: UK Valve museum, with data

Radio catalogue: more than 74,500 radios with 39,000 pictures and 38,000 schematics plus radio forum.
www.Radiomuseum.org

Ralf Jaeckel's mercury arc rectifier website, showing a collection and information about this larger glassware
Röhren Museum: Run by Thomas Rapp, lots of photos and descriptions
Tera Lab: Experiments, glass blowing, valve museum etc.
Tube Collectors Association: The tube collectors association - join up!
tubecollection.de: An impressive collection
Uli's tube collection: Valve collection
Un secolo da diodo - a site about the centenary of the diode. Also has other historic info as well as valve advertising material.
Virtual mercury arc rectifier museum run by Martyn Leek
Vintage Technology Association (component devices section)
Wumpus's old radio world: Radios, valves etc

Clubs, societies, organisations

British Vintage Wireless Society
Defence Electronics History Society (DEHS)
Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society

Directories etc

Radio resources - directory of radio related websites and discussion groups.

Events

National Vintage Communications Fair (NVCF) at the NEC, Birmingham, England.

Vintage Valve Technology Fair (VVTF) at Haydock Park, England.

Suppliers/manufacturers/traders

Antique Electronic Repair

Antique Electronic Supply - Trader

Ask Jan First - Supplier with lots in stock, including books and data.

Audionova - Audio resources website - links, magazines, information for audio enthusiasts

Billington Export Ltd - Trader

Chelmer Valve Company - Trader

Colomor Electronics - Trader

Crowthorne Tubes - Trader

Ebecon - Trader

Edicron - Trader. In business since 1958 selling to the trade under the Edicron brand but now sells to the public too. They specialise in current production rather than NOS and stock virtually all the the different variants of the popular types.

Eimac tubes - Manufacturer

Electronenbuizen sales, base disgrams etc.

ESRC tubes - Trader

Fust-Electronica - Trader

George H. Fathauer & Assoc. - "Early radio & collector tubes"

Helmut Singer Elektronik - Supplier in Germany

Istok - Microwave device manufacturer

JustRadios - Capacitors and Schematics for Tube Radios
Specializes in high voltage film and electrolytic capacitors for tube radios. Also carries Antique Radio Schematics and service information

New: Langrex Supplies Ltd - trader with large stocks of valves including many rare and industrial types etc. Some of the rarer WWII valves in the museum were sourced from here. Their valve stock list is available as a PDF.

Micronetics Inc Ltd - Trader

Richardson Electronics - Suppliers

Svetlana - Manufacturer

Technical & Scientific Supplies

Tejas Tubes - trader specialising in rare, high quality NOS audio valves.

Thales Electron Devices - Formerly Thomson Tubes Electroniques

Triode Electronics - Also has data and lots of links...

Tubesworld - trader

TubosElectronicos Chile

Vacuumtubes Inc. - Trader (Jim Cross) - also has an interesting Hall of Shame

Vacuumtubes.Net - Trader
The Vaccum tubes division of Radio Electric Supply with 10 million valves in stock.

Vacuum Tube Valley - Trader

Valve & Tube Supplies (UK)
Run by Rod Burman, a renowned valve guru with a personal collection of over 3,000 individual valves from the origins of the technology at the beginning of the 20th century. Offering an excellent personal service, the highest level of expertise and a no-quibble guarantee of satisfaction, they supply everyone from equipment restorers to hi-fi enthusiasts to collectors. Numerous of the valves in the museum were sourced from here.

Webtubes - Trader

Links to information sites holding datasheets etc. can be found on the Valve/tube Information page.

If you want me to add a link to your site just e-mail me at jeremy 'at' webiosis.co.uk.

This file was last modified 13:17:15, Thursday October 18, 2007