[Collins] KWM-1 manual
AI2Q
ai2q at roadrunner.com
Wed Apr 27 09:10:49 EDT 2011
Thank you, Brian. I just signed up.
BTW, I got my relay contacts burnished and cleaned with the help of a residue-free contact cleaner that W1PIE gave me (it's a Miller-Stephenson product). Seems like good stuff.
I also methodically removed every last Black Beauty cap. When I put these caps on my old Eico capacitance bridge and applied variable high voltage, the green tuning eye on the tester closed right up. It was Leakage City. I now have a nice little collection of nasty old Black Beauties!
The replacement Orange Drop caps, and some military quality caps I had, showed wide open green eye tests on the Eico all the way to 600V. I installed them, and then aligned the rig and balanced the balanced modulator.
Last night I had a lot of fun on 20M fone with the KWM-1, making a number of contacts in Europe and South America. I even got one unsolicited report of "excellent audio." HI HI.
Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
Member: ARRL, FOC, RSGB, CWops, QRP-L, Antique Wireless Association, Wide Area Amateur Radio Network
http://home.roadrunner.com/~alexmm
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Harris
To: Greg Mijal ; AI2Q ; Dutch Maurer WB7DYW
Cc: Collins at Mailman.Qth.Net
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
Good idea. I just formed a Yahoo group.
Here are the details on kwm-1:
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kwm-1
Group email address: kwm-1 at yahoogroups.com
Let the party begin.
Brian Harris, WA5UEK
phone 214-763-5977
email cosmophone at yahoo.com
website www.myhamshack.com/wa5uek
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nationalradio/
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -Carl Sagan
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From: Greg Mijal <bluebirdtele at embarqmail.com>
To: AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com>; Dutch Maurer WB7DYW <wb7dyw at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Collins at Mailman.Qth.Net" <collins at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, April 26, 2011 8:26:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
I think it is high time for us, the annoited ones with KWM-1's create either
a registry, a website or a net devoted to the grey ghost.
We also need a central point to look for parts etc.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message -----
From: "AI2Q" <ai2q at roadrunner.com>
To: "Dutch Maurer WB7DYW" <wb7dyw at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Collins at Mailman.Qth.Net" <collins at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
> Thank you, Dutch. This helps enormously. I have the receiver section
> working nicely, now that I have replaced Black Beauties. The relays are
> now my problem, as they're worn. I am hoping to be able to burnish the
> contacts.
>
> My KWM-1 is a late model, replete with LOCK setting and dial lamp dimmer
> pot. The schematic in your manual reflects the dimmer; my schematic (no
> manual) did not.
>
> Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dutch Maurer WB7DYW
> To: AI2Q
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
>
>
> Alex,
> Here is the KWM-1 manual and 2 SB's, hope that helps ya....
>
> 73's Dutch WB7DYW
> CCA Member #918
> Please visit my website: www.wb7dyw.com
>
> Success is not a place in time, it is an attitude…
>
> --- On Mon, 4/25/11, AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
> To: "Dutch Maurer WB7DYW" <wb7dyw at yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 10:16 AM
>
>
>
> That would work, indeed, Dutch. Thanks so much in advance.
>
> Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dutch Maurer WB7DYW
> To: AI2Q
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
>
>
> I can email a manual for you if that will work...
>
> 73's Dutch WB7DYW
> CCA Member #918
> Please visit my website: www.wb7dyw.com
>
> Success is not a place in time, it is an attitude…
>
> --- On Mon, 4/25/11, AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: AI2Q <ai2q at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: [Collins] KWM-1 manual
> To: "Collins at Mailman.Qth.Net" <collins at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Monday, April 25, 2011, 7:48 AM
>
>
> Might anyone on the list know where I can get a manual
> for my KWM-1? I am
> especially looking for component location diagrams.
>
> Thanks, in advance.
>
> Cordially,
>
> AI2Q, Alex
> Member: ARRL, FOC, RSGB, CWops, QRP-L, Antique Wireless
> Association, Wide
> Area Amateur Radio Network
> http://home.roadrunner.com/~alexmm
>
>
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