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. Most of the KWM‑2 transceivers that turn up…
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…
Low-Noise Resistor Selection for Vintage Receiver, Transmitter, and Transceiver Restoration A practical reference for choosing replacement resistors 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…
The Boatanchor SDR Integration Series: Index and IF Buffer Amplifier Reference A consolidated index to the five SDR integration articles, plus a shared technical appendix on the buffered IF tap that most of them depend on. Over five companion articles,…
Choosing an SDR for the Collins KWM-2A Transceiver The fifth in the Boatanchor SDR series — and the receiver Collins already built with external-receiver integration in mind. Companion articles: R-390A, Hammarlund SP-600, Collins 51S-1, and Collins S-Line 75S-1 / 32S-1…
Choosing an SDR for the Collins S-Line Station: 75S-1 Receiver and 32S-1 Transmitter The fourth in the Boatanchor SDR series — and the first to cover a complete transmitting station rather than a single receiver. Companion articles: R-390A, Hammarlund SP-600,…