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If anyone has any of the AEA manuals listed below please send an email to
repeater-builder. Or if you have an additional manual that we don't have
below. We'd like to get PDFs of them or borrow them to scan: |
 | "Halo" series antenna(s) |
 | (model number? numbers?) Antenna
Analyzer(s) |
 | BT-1 Morse Trainer |
 | KK-1 Keyboard Keyer |
 | MM-series MorseMatic Keyers |
 | PK-89 Packet Controller |
 | RL-1 Radiolink |
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| AEA offered three programs for packet use. Here are the last versions of two
of them. If anyone has the Apple Mac version please let us know. Note these are DOS programs,
and what you find in the ZIP file is all that there is, and there is no vendor support. If
there is a better freeware packet program "out there" please let us know, we can make it or
them available for download: |
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PC-Pakratt |
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PK-Fax |
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MacRATT |
Does anyone have any useful modifications or other articles on AEA
gear? We're offering this space to host any mods that have proven useful and any
articles of interest that you may have stashed on your local hard drives. A
walkthrough of how to use the Antenna Analyzer would be of special interest.
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Lastly, EPROMS aren't forever... after a decade or so they start dropping
bits (the common term is "bit rot"). Further down this page we have all of the PROM
image files that were donated. If anyone would like to donate others we will
post them.
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There are no Timewave manuals here. Use the link above to go to their web site.
The Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc. / AEA manuals that we have here are:
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AEA Morse Memory Keyer model CK-1 Instruction
Manual Scanned and donated by Dale Cheek NY5B 580 kB PDF file
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AEA "Contester" Morse Memory Keyer model CK-2 Instruction
Manual Scanned and donated by Bill Perkins KB4KFT 800 kB PDF file
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AEA Corp. DM-1 Deviation Meter
Manual 961 kB PDF
DM-1 large
schematic 146 kB PDF Both donated by and PDF'd by
Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly
Instructions (official copy) 500 kB PDF donated by AEA Technologies
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AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions
(early version) 34 kB PDF donated by Mike Reed N7ZEF
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AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions
(late version) 38 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric
Lemmon WB6FLY
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AEA 220 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly
Instructions 99 kB PDF donated by Ron Bouder KA3CNT, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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AEA 440 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly
Instructions 99 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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Two AEA Isopole Sales Flyers
207 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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"Facts About Vertical
Antennas" - a technical writeup by AEA 207 kB PDF donated by
Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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Brochure for the MBA-RC Code Converter
2.2 MB PDF donated and PDF'd by Don Abeles WA7UUL
The MBA-RC is a single box that is a full function decoder and display unit for Morse code,
Baudot (5-bit RTTY/Teletype) and ASCII (7 or 8 bit RTTY/Teletype/computer) data streams. It
takes in audio from any HF, VHF or UHF radio, TTL, current loop or serial signals plus +12v
(at about 1.2 to 1.5 amps) and outputs it's own 32 character scrolling display or drives a
printer.
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Manual for the MBA-RC Code Converter 5
MB PDF donated and PDF'd by Don Abeles WA7UUL
This Instruction manual is dated 1982.
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Manual for the "Morsematic" Keyer model
MM-1 1.37 MB PDF donated by Rich Rohweder N7FDM
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PK-88 Packet Controller Operating Manual
21.7 MB PDF donated by Steaven Rogers, W4YI and Kenny Rogers, K4KR
Revision D, dated March 1990, complete with schematics and board layouts.
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PK-900 Packet Controller Operating Manual
4.06 MB PDF donated by Mark Sihlanick N2QT
Revision D, dated March 1993, complete with schematics, interconnecting cable wiring
information and board layouts.
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PK-900 Manual 5.4 MP PDF.
Donated by Greg Beat W9GB
Dated November 2004
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PK-232 Operating Manual
5.4 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
Revision B, dated Sept 1986.
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PK-232 Technical Reference Manual
4.6 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
Preliminary Release / Revsion A, dated May 1987.
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Timewave DSP-232 Plus Manual
(2005) 253 KB PDF donated by Greg Beat W9GB
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2400 baud DPSK Modem Operation
Instructions 253 KB PDF donated by Greg Beat W9GB
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PK-232 Low Power CMOS Upgrade Kit
A.06135 Documentation 191 KB PDF donated by Greg Beat W9GB
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"TNC GPS Upgrade Addendum" subtitled "GPS
Operation" 474 kB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
The introduction says that this writeup is applicable to all of the PK series.
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PK-232MBX Operating Manual
3.1 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
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PK-232MBX EPROM Installation
Instructions 85kb PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
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PK-232MBX Node Gateway Option
Supplement 447 kB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
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PK-232MBX Revision Supplement (dated
July 1990) 57 kB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
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The PK-232 was the flagship of AEAs product line, and THE unit that other companies
tried to equal. Few products in the history of amateur radio have endured the test
of time as well as the PK-232. Even fewer products in the digital age have survived
more than one decade. The PK-232 was introduced in 1986. Offering all of the current
digital modes - RTTY, AMTOR and CW - in one box made it an immediate success. The
orders rolled in and AEA licensed the design to the Heath Company to produce the
HK-232, a kit version of the PK-232. Over the next few years, several firmware
upgrades added additional functionality and increased the reliability. In 1989, AEA
introduced the "PakMail " upgrade, a mailbox daughterboard with battery-backed memory.
Later in 1989, the mailbox daughterboard was integrated into the PK-232 main board to
make the PK-232MBX. The new PK-232MBX had a number of other hardware changes, including
changing the front panel leds from all red to a combination of red, yellow and green
and adding a hole in the bottom of the housing to allow removal the battery jumper
without removing the housing. In 1993 AEA added Pactor and Gateway modes to to the
PK-232. The final AEA upgrade, GPS compatibility, came in 1995. AEA sold their last
PK-232MBX units in early 1996, intending to replace the PK-232 with the new DSP-232.
Unfortunately, AEA closed its doors in 1996. They sold the data products line to
Timewave and the antenna products line to Tempo Research of Vista, CA. In late 1997,
Timewave shipped the last of the remaining AEA units. In the fall of 1998, Timewave
introduced the DSP upgrade for the PK-232MBX. This upgrade substantially improved
performance resulted in the PK-232/DSP. In addition to its precision DSP filters,
the PK-232/DSP featured lower power consumption, a reset switch and an overload LED.
In 2001 the advent of the sound card modes, especially PSK-31, brought yet another
upgrade to the PK-232. Timewave engineers created the PSK sound card interface board,
a testament to the amazing flexibility of the original PK-232 design. In 2005 Timewave
added the USB upgrade to support the new generation of PCs that lack a RS-232 serial
port.
NOTE: PROMs aren't forever. Given enough time they will
all drop bits.
If anyone would like to read the PROMs in their PK-series unit and email us
the image files we will host them.
Then as folks have problems due to bit rot they can erase and reburn their
PROM chips and get their unit working again.
On all the .hex files below you will want to right-click on them and "Save As"
to your local hard drive.
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PK-88: None yet
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PK-89: None yet
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PK-900: None yet
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PK-232:
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Anyone want to contribute some other PROM images (even anonymously?)
Here are some photos of the PROM installation.
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The picture pk232mbx-roms.jpg shows how the
PROMs should be installed in the PK-232mbx. Note that each PROM chip has a notch
in the pin 1 end. Watch that you get them in the right direction, you
will destroy the chip if it is installed in the socket backwards ! And
it's way too easy to fold a pin underneath. So look twwice and BE CAREFUL.
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The picture pk232-mem-expansion.jpg shows
the memory expansion board that was available from AEA to upgrade a PK-232 to a
PK-232mbx. The board provides additional ram and sockets for 2 larger eproms
(ver70 software PROMs shown installed).
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This page initially created 14-Oct-2004 by Mike Morris WA6ILQ as part of the "Other
Manufacturers" page, and split off on 13-Jan-2007.
No infringement of AEA's, Tempo's or Timewave's copyrights is intended... The only
reason we are doing this is that you can't find AEA information anywhere. If anyone
had these files on their public web site we wouldn't need to.
This web page, this web site, the information presented in and on its pages and
in these modifications and conversions is © Copyrighted 1995 and (date of last
update) by Kevin Custer W3KKC and multiple originating authors. All Rights
Reserved, including that of paper and web publication elsewhere.
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