Meanwhile, we will continue to reminisce about those heady days of quality manufacturing and good old fashion ingenuity making America great.

As such, there is a lot of background that we will be looking to see maintained on this site and across the world.  To do this we have a handful of projects in mind that compliment some of the other scattered information sites out there.

Specifically we want to do the following items first – since they are the easiest and most applicable.

• Informational Cross Link Directory (including some lost sites)
• Cultivate factual entries into Wikipedia
• Monthly release of different items we have in inventory
• Generate a James Millen Facebook site for easy information sharing among the community
• gathering, republishing many of the articles found about James Millen
• cataloging many of our schematics scattered in our file draws and on the Internet

Why do this?

Well, for starters we really like this stuff and recognize that there are a number of individuals out there that do as well.   Lets be honest, this equipment was designed to work after the big one but until then much of the equipment is being maintained from a hobbyist standpoint.  The true affectionado  will want every knob, screw and detail completely original, so it is important to be able to supply them with the information to fulfill their project.

And of course, we have the legal responsibility to maintain our intellectual property rights which isn’t as bad as it sounds since we have been gladly sharing with the community at large whenever asked.  In fact our only concern lies in ensuring that our documentation and intellectual property doesn’t become public domain because it was never granted to the public domain.

We believe in Fair Use and the Creative Commons provide more than enough room for individuals to share and access information in the interest of the community at large.  So if you or someone you know maintains a site with drawings, logos, catalogs, and other copyrighted information from our company,  let them know that we will contacting them to simply require that they provide the appropriate notices of copyright ownership to those pages or documents – all without any fees or charges.

 How can you help?

If you are already one of the many antique ham radio members, you already are – still there are other ways to help us all spread the information:

• work with us on the Wikipedia Project
• fill in some blank spaces of the archives and time line
• take pictures of restoration projects (we are willing to sponsor clubs with web hosting)
• make suggestions and simply participate

However you choose to help, you will find that the results will far exceed the effort expended when we work together.

We look forward to see what we can do as a community interested in sharing their interest in these incredibly long lasting pieces of radio communication.