Collins 30K1 – Restoration Visual Essay
Collins 30K-1 Transmitter Restoration The Cleaning, Restoration and Service of a Collins Time Capsule Incoming Shipping a 400 lb transmitter across the country is no easy task, but thanks to a good packer and BAX Airfreight it arrived safe and sound in just two days!...
Yes Virginia, There is a Zorch God
*Circa August 13, 2005 Today in the middle of a FB QSO with K1MVP the plate blocking capacitor in my 32V crapped out. This was evidenced by an immediate loss of RF, a loud hum and the telltale pegged plate current meter. Even my trusty old buzzard RF indictor, a large...
The Zig Zag Loop
Intro This was written back in the last 1990s when I lived near Buffalo, NY, in a suburb that had zero lot lines, and little space for antennas. A vacant field in back of my home became the antenna field for my station. – Bruce W1UJR Where there is a will… Often, one...
Why Not A Wire Loop Antenna?
Intro This was written back in the last 1990s when I lived near Buffalo, NY, in a suburb that had zero lot lines, and little space for antennas. A vacant field in back of my home became the antenna field for my station. - Bruce W1UJR As some of you may know, I am an...
Special Event Stations – If You Built It They Will Come
Intro The above work was published in the September 2002 edition of Electric Radio magazine. This article was to about last May’s AM Special Event in Portland, Maine, but with my recent move to the state, coupled with my search for a new business the writing was...
Collins KW-1 Mobile
It had been talked about for months, and now the day was here. I found myself in a rented cargo van, with only 3 hours of sleep, at 4:15AM, headed off to the Rochester, NY hamfest. A Collins KW-1, URT-368 transmitter and a heavy-duty generator strapped securely in the...
The Resurrection of Radio
Circa 210 Vintage radio is alive and well! Perhaps you recall that long forgotten mode of AM, Amplitude Modulation? Well AM is back, with a vengeance. Fortified by the bromide “Everything Old Becomes New Again.”, hams both new and old have begun to discover, or in...
Real Radio – A Letter I Sent To Electric Radio
Intro This was sent when I lived near Buffalo, NY, in the late 1990s. I had just read a story by Bruce Vaughn N5RQ, now a silent key. Bruce has a wonderful story teller, and friend, and an old time radio repairman. If you ever get a chance to read any of his articles...
Old Buzzard Notes and Nets – Circa 2005
Circa 2005 Read something interesting in the January 1941 of QST this week. In 1941 the League was hot on running “Code Proficiency Tests” and awarding certificates for participants, in fact nearly every issue of QST in 1941 had some article relating to CW operations,...
My Radio Story
I was 12 when I first received a Radio Shack DX-160 shortwave receiver for Christmas. My father, who worked on road construction at the time, used to bring home large rolls of wire from blasting caps. I used this wire to construct the largest and most bizarre antenna...