Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 47 Silent Key Glen E. Zook, K9STH First Article at Seventeen, and Six Decades Without Stopping Silent Key 22 July 2020, Richardson, Texas First Licensed as a teenager, K9 district (Indiana) Business Z-Communications Company Website…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 46 Silent Key Dennis L. Brothers, WAØCBK From the Cedar Rapids Factory Floor to America’s Only Certified Collins Repair Center Born 9 February 1943, Kimball, Nebraska Silent Key 16 November 2024, age 81 Business Western…
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…
Boatanchor Legends · Tribute Series Wayne Spring W6IRD · 1949–2025 Silent Key The west coast’s master of the Collins KWM-380 and HF-380, a Southern California DX Club president, and one half of ham radio’s most devoted husband-and-wife restoration team. Wayne…
Boatanchor Legends: Bob Sternowski, WB0LBI — From the Collins Radio Bench to Venus Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Robert “Bob” Sternowski WB0LBI — Silent Key Collins Radio • Softronics Ltd. • NASA • HF Engineering Pioneer Bob Sternowski spent…