Category Boatanchor Legends Tributes

Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 48 Active · CCA Technical Editor Don Jackson, W5QN The Measurement Engineer of the S‑Line — the man who put real numbers behind the Collins legend, one careful analysis at a time ✍ Mike Peace…

Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Carol Maher, W4CLM The keeper of the Fox Tango flame — who took a dormant newsletter club and built it into the definitive online home for Yaesu owners the world over. Some legends of…

Boatanchor Legends — A Tribute Series Milton Lowens, WA2AOQ · N4ML The retired engineer who answered one radio’s design flaw by founding the most influential users group in amateur radio history — and proved that one man, one typewriter, and…

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…