Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 45 President · Collins Collectors Association Bill Carns, N7OTQ / KØCXX Art Collins’ Callsign Trustee, Editor of the Signal, Keeper of the Wimberley Shack Education BSEE 1964, MS Plasma Physics 1965, U. of Illinois First…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 44 Co-Founder · Collins Collectors Association Jay Roman, KBØATQ The Third Founder, and the Voice that Put the CCA Into Print First CCA Net Check-in 30 December 1990 CCM Founding Publisher June 1991 Original Board…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 43 Silent Key Bud Whitney, K7RMT “K7 Rocky Mountain Time” — The Bench That Kept the Collins Fleet Alive Born 24 October 1919 Silent Key circa 2010–2012 Callsign Meaning K7 Rocky Mountain Time Workshop Wimberley,…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 42 Active · Collins Engineer Rod Blocksome, KØDAS Collins Engineer, Historian, and the Man Who Brought a KWM-3 to Dayton First Licensed 1960 as KNØDAS Education BSEE 1968, MSEE 1973, Kansas State Career 42 years,…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 41 Silent Key Warren B. Bruene, W5OLY The Quiet Engineer Who Made Single Sideband Practical Born 1916, Iowa Silent Key 28 September 2013 Earlier Call WØTTK Home QTH Richardson, Texas If you have ever spoken…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 40 Silent Key Bill Wheeler, KØDEW The Quiet Founder of the Collins Collectors Association Born 18 July 1939 Silent Key 17 April 2020 First Licensed 1956 as KNØDEW Home QTH Lebanon, Missouri On a Sunday…
ARRL Year of the Club · 2026 Club QSO Party The operating event designed FOR clubs, BY clubs The ARRL has officially declared 2026 the Year of the Club, and a brand-new on-the-air event has been launched specifically to energise…
Collins KWM-2 / KWM-2A Field Service Some KWM-2 / 2A Tricks A re-issue and enrichment of the January 2016 CCAE field-service article by Georges Ricaud, F6CER (CCAE #098), with primary-source cross-references for the Collins Collector community. Front panel of the Collins KWM-2A — photograph…
GPS-disciplined crystal channels for the Hammarlund SP-600-JX Bringing parts-per-billion frequency stability to a 1950s spy-radio classic using a $18 programmable crystal module and a GPS receiver The Hammarlund SP-600-JX is one of the great communications receivers of the vacuum-tube era…
Capacitor Selection for Vintage Receiver, Transmitter, and Transceiver Restoration A practical reference for choosing replacement capacitors in premium HF tube equipment — from receivers like the R-390A and SP-600, through transmitters like the 32S-1 and Apache TX-1, to transceivers like…