Back to Home   Technical Information on Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc. (AEA) Products
Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ
   

The AEA Company that was involved in the amateur radio world ceased operation in 1996, and their office at 2006 196th Street SW, Lynwood, Washington 98036 was closed. They sold the data products line to Timewave Technology of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the antenna products line to Tempo Research of Vista, California (just north of San Diego).

Historically, “AEA Wireless” was purchased by Tempo in 1995 and sold again in 2000. George Naber, the former VP of Operations at Tempo, bailed it out of near bankruptcy in 2001. He restructured Production to be profitable, brought on a new Chief Engineer and redirected the company toward the commercial market. On May 5, 2004, he renamed the company AEA Technology, Inc. He is still their President and CEO. AEA continues to make several models of test equipment designed and priced for the amateur market, but all their newer products are now focused on the CATV, Telco, Broadcast, Land and Marine Mobile, Medical, RFID, and military markets. AEA maintains a loyal following of amateur users who have been using their antenna analyzers for years and trade them up whenever possible.

There is a different AEA (based in Pasadena, California) that makes some of the world's finest recording studio microphones and does forensic audio recovery.   If you are looking for Audio Engineering Associates, "The Ribbon Microphone People", "The Forensic Audio People", or Wes Dooley click here.


Contact Information
AEA Antennas and Antenna Analyzers
The AEA antenna and Antenna Analyzer product line was acquired by Tempo Research, previously known as AEA Technology, of Vista, California, now of Carlsbad, California. Any service or upgrade requirements should be directed to:

AEA Technology, Inc.
5933 Sea Lion Place, Suite 101
Carlsbad, CA 92010
Tel: 800-258-7805 or 760-931-8979

Note: The AntennaSmith™ is a Timewave Product.
AEA Data products (Multimode data controllers, TNCs)
In mid-1997 Timewave Technology bought the data side of AEA, and they can repair many AEA data products. Their ability to repair these products is limited by parts availability and special test equipment to test the products. Timewave has a limited supply of AEA custom parts that will be used until the supply is exhausted.

Timewave Technology Inc.
1025 Selby Avenue, Suite 101
St. Paul, MN 55104-6533
Phone: 1-651-489-5080
email: techsupport (at) timewave (dot) com


If anyone has the AEA manuals listed below please send an email to repeater-builder. We'd like to get PDFs of them or borrow them to scan:
"Halo" series antenna(s) (model number ?) Antenna Analyzer BT-1 Morse Trainer
CK-1 Memory Keyer CK-2 Memory Keyer MM-1 MorseMatic Keyer
PK-232 Data Controller PK-232MBX Data ControllerPK-89 Packet Controller
 
If anyone has the last versions of these (or, as an alternate, a good freeware packet program), we can make them available for download:
PC-Pakratt PK-Fax MacRATT

Lastly, EPROMS aren't forever... after a decade or so they start dropping bits. If anyone wants to read their original AEA PROMS and send in the image files we'll be glad to host them on this page.


The Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc. / AEA manuals that we have here are:

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
AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions (official copy)   500 kB PDF donated by AEA Technologies
AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions (early version)   34 kB PDF donated by Mike Reed N7ZEF
AEA 144 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions (late version)   38 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
AEA 220 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions   99 kB PDF donated by Ron Bouder KA3CNT, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
AEA 440 MHz Isopole Antenna Assembly Instructions   99 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
Two AEA Isopole Sales Flyers   207 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
"Facts About Vertical Antennas" - a technical writeup by AEA   207 kB PDF donated by Gary Richardson N6LRV, PDF'd by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
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.
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.
PK-232 Operating Manual   5.4 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
Revision B, dated Sept 1986.
PK-232 Technical Reference Manual   4.6 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
Preliminary Release / Revsion A, dated May 1987.
"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.
PK-232MBX Operating Manual   3.1 MB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
PK-232MBX EPROM Installation Instructions   85kb PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
PK-232MBX Node Gateway Option Supplement   447 kB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP
PK-232MBX Revision Supplement (dated July 1990)   57 kB PDF donated by Jim Lange WA2RJP

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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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.