[ARC5] "What's Old is New..."

[Glen Zook]

The Harris SSB transceivers were having the receiver "front ends" damaged by the effect of sand blowing across the HF antennas.  Until a solution was found, quite a number of Collins KWM-2A transceivers were employed to replace the Harris equipment.

Fortunately, there were around 100 KWM-2A transceivers stored in a warehouse and, again fortunately, someone remembered that these units were available.  A couple of retired Collins Radio Company employees were "drafted" to "check out" the equipment before it was airlifted to the Gulf States.  I have been led to believe that one of the former Collins employees went along with the equipment to insure that it worked after deployment and to teach the military personnel how to operate the KWM-2A units.
 Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: Jay Coward via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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Wasn't there a call for R-390A's during the Gulf War because comms were getting fried by high levels of atmospheric static discharge? Or is that urban or sub-urban legend?Jay KE6PPF
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