Category Boatanchor Legends Tributes

Boatanchor Legends · Tribute No. 50 Living Legend · Homebrew Master Dick Benson W1QG The engineer who retired, bought a $34 FPGA board, and built the Collins S-Line all over again — in silicon, in Simulink, and in salvaged HP…

Fox-Tango Legends — No. 007 Teruhiko Hayashi JA2SVZ The Man Who Kept the Counters Counting Every Fox-Tango Legend so far has kept the hybrid era alive with knowledge — survival guides, restorations, stewardship of the club itself. Teruhiko Hayashi, JA2SVZ,…

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,…