Welcome to my Collins KWS-1& 75A4 Page | |||||||||||||||
Welcome to my Collins KWS-1 & 75A4
Page. I have included some pictures of my Collins KWS-1 and
75A4 station. I owned this station for about 15 years before
selling it in the big radio sell off. The transmitter was very (!) exciting to have in the shack, to operate, and make contacts with. I enjoyed running classic SSB, AM, and CW with this fine rig and often checked into the Collins Collectors Association 75m and 20m nets with it. I got great AM and SSB audio reports! Interestingly enough, the AM is single side-banded AM, and most folks can't tell unless they try to zero beat me and notice the missing sideband. AM Audio quality is excellent and only seems to drop after someone notices the missing sideband :) I ran an Astatic 10DA microphone. This set up has a nickname of "The Gold Dust Twins" because they were so expensive to own back in the 1950's. You know, when I flipped the high voltage switch on this transmitter, with the filament and plate voltage jewels glowing red and green, and the blower sound as it tries to cool those 4x250's, and the look of the large transmitter, it felt like I was running 100,000 watts. Its just gotta give me an extra 12 db just from the "cool" alone. |
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