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Optoelectronics, Inc. is a manufacturer of equipment for RF testing,
Technical Surveillance and Countermeasures (TSCM) and Counter Surveillance,
based in Roswell (GA, USA). The company offers bug detectors,
near field receivers and TSCM sweep kits.
Optoelectronics was founded around
1972 in Ft. Lauderdale (FL, USA), and was later relocated to
Boca Raton (FL, USA).
Optoelectronics was incorporated in the State of Florida on 26 September 1974
by Linda Ross Hufft (29 April 1943 — 28 March 2017) and her husband Fred Hufft.
In the first years, the company rose to fame with the introduction of a range
of affordable professional frequency counters for the professiomal and amateur
market, some of which were available as self-build kits.
All products were developed in-house by an innovative
engineering team, initially with hired consultant James Baughman and later
with resident enigeers like William (Bill) Owen and Judd Sheets, both of
whom are registered as inventors on patents filed on behalf of the company.
The couple divorced in 1988, after which Fred Hufft left Optoelectronics to
found his own company by the name of Startek.
Startek offered a similar range of portable frequency counters
and was also based in Fort Lauderdale (FL, USA).
After the divorce, Optoelectronics was run by Linda Ross Hufft —
at the time, one of the very few women in the 'men's world' of
electronics. Under her leadership, Optoelectronics flourished and became a respected name in both the amateur and professional RF industry, selling
products to amateur radio operators worldwide,
as well as to US government agencies and the military.
In 2007, the company was relocated to Boca Raton (FL, USA).
After her death in 2017, Linda Ross Hufft was inducted in the CQ Amateur Radio
Hall of Fame [5]. From then on the company was co-owned by daughter Cynthia
Cox and son-in-law Kevin Cox, both of whom had already been involved in
management of the company for several years.
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Optoelectronics equipment on this website
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1200H Handheld frequency counter 1300H/A 1.3 GHz Handheld frequency counter 2210 10 Hz - 2.2 GHz Handheld frequency counter 2300 1 MHz - 2.4 GHz Handheld frequency counter 2810 Handheld frequency countr 3000A 10 Hz - 3 GHz Handheld frequency counter 7010A 600 MHz Frequency counter 8000 600 MHz Frequency counter 8010 Frequency counter 8013-S 10 Hz - 1.3 GHz Frequency counter CCB RF Detector CD-100 Frequency counter + tone decoder Cub 1 MHz - 2.8 GHz mini frequency counter DC-440 DTMF, CTCSS, DCS tone decoder M1 50 Hz - 2.8 GHz mini frequency counter R-10 FM near-field receiver R-11 FM near-field receiver R-20 AM near-field receiver Scout 40 Frequency recorder 10 MHz - 1.4 GHz Spectrum Frequency recorder 10 MHz - 2.6 GHz Xplorer FM near-field receiver + frequency counter DTMF decoder Miniature DTMF decoder Micro Counter Miniature frequency counter (10 MHz-1.2 GHz) RF Detector Miniature RF detector
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M2 10 Hz - 2.6 GHz handheld frequency counter CD-200 100 MHz - 3 GHz frequency counter + CTCSS/DCS Tone decoder SD-750 Spy detector SD-650 Mini spy detector VS-5800 Video sweeper
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- Old address (1998)
Optoelectronics, Inc.
5821 NE 14th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33334
USA
- Old address (2009)
Optoelectronics, Inc.
160 West Camino Real #233
Boca Raton, FL 33432
USA
- Current address (2023)
Optoelectronics, Inc.
885 Woodstock Rd Ste. #430-521
Roswell, GA 30075
USA
Website: www.optoelectronics.com
E-mail: sales@optoelectronics.com
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Known Optoelectronics personnel
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- Linda Ross Hufft
- Fred J. Hufft
- Cynthia Cox
- James Baughman
- William (Bill) Paraham Owen III
- Judd Sheets
- Jt Mulcahy
- Kevin Cox
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- US patent 5,471,402 - Frequency counter
Filed 21 September 1994 by William P. Owen on behalf of Optoelectronics, Inc.
- US patent 5,710,710 - Frequency counter with reduced false correlations
Filed 22 November 1995 by William P. Owen and Judd Sheets
on behalf of Optoelectronics, Inc.
- Linda Ross Hufft, Obituary
Dignity Memorial, 28 March 2017.
- William "Bill" Paraham Owen, III Obituary
Pierson-Dial Funeral Home. 23 March 2017.
- K8CX, The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
Ham Gallery. Visited 30 July 2025.
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