Collins



32V-1
Collins 32V-1 CW and AM transmitter. Tubes: 4D32, 807's and a 6SL7. The output is 75 to 115 watts on the 10 through 80 meter bands.
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51S-1
Collins 51S-1 HF receiver.
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75A-1
Collins 75A-1 HF ham band receiver.
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75A-4
Collins 75A-4 - ham band shortwave receiver for 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 11, and 10 meters. Double conversion; precise dial calibration and high stability provided by the permeability tuned, hermetically sealed Collins VFO and the crystal controlled first injection oscillator; and ideal selectivity produced by Collins Mechanical Filters. AM, CW or RTTY.
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310B-3
Collins 310B-3 RF Exciter. This unit uses plug-in coils for band switching. It employs a type 70E-8 PTO and 2E26 RF amplifier tube and delivers 10 watts RF output. Production year: 1947
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CV-157
CV-157 - SSB converter designed for use with the R-390/R-390A receiver, with 44 tubes. Weight is 100+ lbs.


KW-1
KW-1 Collins amateur transmitter. Vfo-controlled, bandswitched, AM and CW on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 11 and 10 meters. Input is 1000 watts and 500 watts on the 160 meter band. KW-1 is self-contained in a cabinet 28 inches wide, 18 inches deep and 66-1/2 inches high. Production year: 1950.
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R-388
Collins R-388 is a 30 band receiver that covers 540 khz to 30.500 mhz. The receiver will readout out to 1 khz for extremely good frequency accuracy. The band width ranges from .2khz to 6 khz in 5 steps. The unit is extremly stable. It is designed to receive AM/CW/MCW, you can receive SSB with turning the gain control down. The receiver is the military equivalent to the Collins 51J3 commerical receiver except it is built to military specifications.
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R-390A
R-390A receiver operates from 0.5 MHz through 32 MHz and is continuously tunable in 32 bands. It has six IF bandwidths designed to accommodate CW, AM and RTTY signals. The R-390A was designed by Collins and built by Collins and many others. It is certainly one of the most well designed receivers ever built.
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R-391
R-391 receiver tunes from .55 - 32 Mhz, in 32 1Mhz bands; Pre-settable frequencies locally or remotely chosen and tuned by a complex set of gears, cams, and clutches driven by a 28VDC motor. "Repeatability" - the radio's ability to return to a pre-set frequency - is within 300 cycles (usually better). The radio uses double conversion for the lower 8 bands; and triple conversion for the upper 24 bands. The R-391 uses variable passband tuned IF which allows selectivity (the ability to tune stations apart) to be varied from wide for good fidelity - to very narrow -allowing maximum separation of stations. R-391 can also be operated from 28VDC by replacing the AC power supply module with the appropriate Dynamotor module.
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---- updated December 24th 2002 ---

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