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[Hellschreiber links]          [German communication technology history links]

 

Here are some good and interesting Hellschreiber-related web sites:

IZ8BLY, Nino Porcino (who created the IZ8BLY Hellschreiber software for PCs in cooperation with Murray Greenman, ZL1BPU).

Association of Friends and Supporters "Technical Collection Dr.-Ing. Rudolf Hell" in Kiel/Germany .

 ZL1BPU, Murray Greenman

The website of the Feld Hell Club is here. I'm member number 24.

Feld Hell Club Offical Yahoo Group

Feldfernschreiber Owners & Operators Group (FOOG). I'm member number 1 (hi!)

Here is the (small) Hellschreiber page in Wikipedia.

Here is the (small) Hellschreiber page of Ottar, LA9IHA

Here is the (small) Hellschreiber page of Marius at HF-FAX (under construction, October 2008); his overview of tape-fax history is here.

SM6MOJ, Andrew Lovell's web site with lots of Hellschreiber literature in various languages (incl. those listed above).
 
VK3AMA Hell mode activity spotter page

Data (digi) Mode spot page (including "Hell") by Risto, W6RK

 

Here are some excellent websites that cover 1920-1945 German radios and their technology

Click here for the authoritative website of the "Foundation for German communication and related technologies (History of Technology)", where Arthur Bauer (PAØAOB) has collected and organized an incredible amount of information on the fascinating (and often superior) German communication and related technologies of the 1930s and 1940s.

The WW2 radio page of Helge Fyske, LA6NCA, is here; his radio main page is here.

The WW2 German radio page of Jan-Martin LA8AK (SK 2005) are here & here

WWII Military Radio Technology  (battlefrequencies.com): Yuri Desyatnik has devoted his website mostly to military communication technology produced prior to 1946, and focuses on WWII German technology and equipment, including restoration.

"Crypto Museum" is a virtual museum created by Paul Reuvers and Marc Simons, for capturing and presenting historical cipher machines such as the well-known Enigma machine, spy equipment and the like.

"Radiomuseum" is a vast virtual radio museum and antique radio catalog. It covers crystal receivers, loop antennas, speakers, rectifiers, Hi-Fi amplifiers, record players, tape recorders, microphones, Old Time amateur gear, "boat anchors", tubes/valves, schematics, etc. The organization has thousands of members and the home page is here.

 

An excellent overview of German radio and electronics history is provided by these articles:

"German World War II communications receivers; Parts I-IV" (Hellschreiber on pp. 1-3), Dick Rollema, PA0SE, CQ Magazine, 8/1980, 12/1980, 5/1981, 8/1981

“Enigma", [incl. PA0AOB Hellschreiber] D.W. Rollema (PA0SE), Wireless World, Vol. 89, Nr. 1569, June 1983, p. 49-54 

"The significance of German electronic engineering in the 1930s" by Arthur Bauer, PA0AOB, presented at the 2004 IEEE Conference on the History of Electronics (CHE2004), Bletchley Park, UK, June 2004.

"Receiver and Transmitter Development in Germany 1920-1945", by Arthur Bauer, PA0AOB, IEE Int'l Conf. on 100 Years of Radio, London, September 1994

"The Fusprech.f Transceiver - a forerunner to today's compact transceiver", by Bengt Lundgren, SM5GDQ, CQ Magazine, October 1990

"The Torn.E.b - The German Portable Battery Receiver Type 24b-305", by R.T. Walker, G4PRI, Radio Bygones, April/May 2003

"German WW II Radio Equipment”, Dick Rollema (PA0SE), Radio Bygones, Nr. 65, June/July 2000, pp. 8-12 See note 1

"Telefunken WW II Superheterodyne Receiver E52 ‘Köln’ – Part 1 & Part 2”, Dick Rollema (PA0SE), Radio Bygones, Nr. 78, August/September 2002, pp. 14-18, Nr. 79, 10/11 2002, pp.  24-30  See note 1

German Army Wireless Equipment - A critical survey of the mechanical and electrical features",  W. Farrar, The Royal Signals Quarterly Journal (New Series), Volume 1, Nr. 2 & 3, April 1947, p. 62-66

"Optical communications - 1935 style", D.W. Rollema (PA0SE), Electronics and Wireless World, August 1985, pp. 46-49
 

Some related discussions of WWII German communication and radar equipment is here:

"Deflating British radar myths of World War II", Maj. G.C. Clark, Air Command and Staff College Research Dept, AU/ACSC/0609F/97-3

"German Radio Communication Equipment", US War Department Technical Manual, TME 11-227, June 1944

"Radar Origins Worldwide: History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II", R.C. Watson, Trafford Publishing, 2009 , 420 pp.

 

Note 1: I have this document on file, but can not post it here, due to copyright reasons.  Contact me if you need a copy.

 

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