A police radio installed in a 1955 Buick is not the kind of object most museums can justify an entire room for. Geoff Fors gave it a website instead.
Visit Geoff Fors’s WB6NVH virtual museum
The site covers an extraordinary range of land-mobile and utility radio history.
Its largest section documents California Highway Patrol radio equipment from 1938 onward, with separate chapters for different eras and additional pages for motorcycle radios and newer systems.
Elsewhere are Bell System car telephones, Motorola police radios, GE two-way equipment, forestry radios, marine receivers, portable HF sets, programming instructions, unusual production hardware, and mystery equipment still waiting to be identified.
Restoration knowledge hides in the paperwork
The CHP material is valuable because it goes past photographs.
Fors explains that annual vehicle installation guidebooks contained wiring diagrams, part numbers, and drawings showing how radio systems were installed in specific patrol cars.
For somebody restoring a police vehicle accurately, that documentation can matter as much as the radio itself.
The site preserves information from some of those materials and asks owners of surviving guidebooks to scan them.
That is grassroots preservation in its most practical form.
The object is not enough.
Future restorers need the cable routing, control head, mounting arrangement, model number, connector, and year-specific wiring.
The homepage was still being updated in 2026, including material on contemporary CHP systems, even while retaining long-running historical sections reaching back to prewar mobile radio.
That continuity turns the site into more than nostalgia.
It becomes a bridge between collectors, restorers, communications historians, and working radio technology.
This is exactly the kind of deep specialist page that makes CacheRat’s 1,967 Ancient Web Domains research list useful as a research corpus.
WB6NVH preserves the unglamorous infrastructure of communication: control heads, transmitters, wiring books, pack radios, and all the hardware that once made “mobile” mean somebody drilled holes in a car.