[Collins] Art Collins and Collins Radio

[David Thompson]

I forgot to include that Mac, W2NSA had a P&H VFO Matic which let the 75A4 
transceive with the kWS-1.  He told Art in a phone call about this and Art 
assigned an engineer to make his new gear (the S line) do the same thing.

There was an article in CQ about 1964 or 5 that built a complete VFOmatic.

Frank Lester, W2AMJ was hired by Hammarlund in 1955.  He found there was not 
a single ham on the hammarlund staff.  Frank went to work to fix that with 
the approval of Lloyd Hammarlund.  Over the next few years several ex P&H 
engineers were hired including the engineer who designed the VFOmatic. 
Lloyd made a management decision not to make a transceiver but to work with 
KW Electronics in the UK and Swan to make one.  The HXQ 300 made it to 
prototype and was advertised in the 1964 WRL Catalog.  Lloyd pulled the plug 
but Frank did include transceive in one model of the HX-50.

73 Dave K4JRB