[Collins] Art Collins and Collins Radio

[Carl]

I tried building that converter at National and even the engineers couldnt 
get it working worth a damn. It was full of mixer products and other birdies 
that required a spectrum analyzer to identify which wasnt something at your 
usual small ham company.

Carl
KM1H


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From: "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
To: <collins at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Collins] Art Collins and Collins Radio


>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
>
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