Wereboar’s useful links
Wednesday, July 21, 2021 at 03:28:46
Welcome to Wereboar’s Links, a page of links to sites and information I’ve found useful over the years. I try to keep this page updated - but if you find something outdated, please let me know on LinkedIn or Mastodon.
I’m not affiliated with any of these people or businesses, they’re just ones I’ve found useful in my personal and professional workings.
Parts and materials
- Antique Electronics Supply sells tubes and old-school parts.
- Just Radios offers capacitors and resistors in those old radio values.
- Hamtubes has new and used tubes at good prices.
- Audiotubes carries unusual tubes, including magic eyes.
- Mouser has new components in small quantities.
- The Boat Anchor Manual Archive is a free, crowdsourced manual archive.
- Grand Brass has line cords and panel sockets (as well as lamp parts.)
- Surplus Sales of Nebraska has all kinds of parts including terminal strips.
- ManualMan carries comb-bound reprints of manuals, including hard to find stuff.
- Jameco Electronics sells general parts, including DIP chips.
Events
- The Dayton Hamvention is a 3 day, 30,000 attendee fest.
- Scott Antique Markets - general antiques (and some radio stuff.)
- Johntown Swapper’s Day, a large Labor Day Weekend flea market.
- The Columbus Ohio hamfest, my local show. Usually in early August.
- 2024 hamfest and show list, with pictures.
- 2025 hamfest and show list, with pictures.
People
- The Oscilloscope Museum, an online CRT wonderland.
- Shango066’s youtube channel. Television and radio resurrection.
Document archive
- World Radio History, a massive repository of books and catalogs relating to electronics.
- All the documents in the Wereboar archive as of December 2024, 225MB, box link.
- All the documents in the Wereboar archive as of December 2024, 225MB, dropbox link.
- All the documents in the Wereboar archive as of April 2025, 401MB, dropbox link.
- Individual documents from Wereboar’s library.
Other places I show up
- My feed on satellite.earth, formerly /oldtech.
- My feed on Mastodon, a short post social network.
- My LinkedIn page, this generally follows my blog.
- My Meshtastic public key, radio “gryphraff mobile”
- My Telegram channel
- rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors - you’ll need to set up a newsreader for this one.