[Collins] Collins mods

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The spotting button is standard on the 32S-3?  Huh, and it has
real grid block keying too, like my DX-60.

I'd get one of those, except I can't afford it.

here's some Collins chat I started on USENET.

> The proprietor of the local radio shop said that the S-Lines and
> KWM-2s were going to Vietnam so a lot of guys were going for Drake,
> "the DX-er's like Drake."  
> 
> Recently, I've heard two stories from that era, one is that at the 
> end of the war, they stacked up KWM-2's and R-390As, and ran tanks
> over them.   
> 
> The other story is that there are cache's in Vietnam with 
> KWM-2s wrapped in plastic and buried.  
> 
> I don't know if either story is true.
 
> I don't either but I know the following story *is* true:
> Pallets of used R-390As were stacked ~10 feet high and left
> out in the weather at a supply location. I saw the picture
> and it was claimed to be genuine. These were units that
> needed work but were mostly complete. The stack was at least
> 25 x 25 feet, and the picture didn't include the whole pile.
> Even as parts units, their value to hams is staggering.
 
> Dunno if there were any Helena Rubenstein '390As in there....

and:

> I _SAW_ the folks at the Osan AB MARS shack tossing R-390s or
> R-390As into a dumpster in October 1969, when I was
> outprocessing at the end of a TDY. They told me I could have
> as many as I wanted, but my hold baggage was on its way back
> to Camp Drake already.

de ah6gi/4  turning on his 75S-1 every night to listen to a few
minutes of CW.  I gotta build an audio filter for my speakers.