[SADXA] Be The Big Gun on AM

[dyarnes]

Well, this thread got me trying to remember exactly what my friend in Arkansas had told me about his acquisitions.  That’s Jay, W5JAY, who lives up near Fayetteville now.  We’ve been close friends for years!

Anyway, I sent him an email asking if he hadn’t owned one of those Johnson Desk Tops, and a KW1 too—I was pretty sure he had.  A lot of those old monsters have some interesting history to them, and this one is no exception.  Here’s what Jay sent back in response to my inquiry:

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Yes and both the KW1 and the Johnson Desk KW at the same time.  The serial number on the Johnson was number 652, but they only made 400 or so I am told.  Not sure why they started out so high in the serial numbers a mystery to this day?  The Johnson KW desk pedestal went to Lee W0VT and he use to be on QRP-L some.  The Collins KW-1 was serial number 10, WE5L now has it.   That is the only rig I wish I had back.  

The Johnson Desk came from K7VZP in Phoenix and I was very young at the time driving all the way there to get it.  About age 22!  It was the last one made and did not have the desk attachment, nor were the stock holes for the pedestal punched out.  That is the way it came.  The story was told to Bill it was coming down the line and asked if the original owner wanted it as there would be no more built.  It did not have 160m on it and it was very inefficient on 10m.  The Collins had 160m and was very good on 10m!, but it didn’t do AB linear mode like the Johnson did.  The Johnson would do Class C for CW, FM or AM very high efficiency and it could do linear AB2 in SSB, which the Collins wasn’t designed to do.,
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Hopefully this is of at least minor interest to some of you.  I was never into this kind of gear, but Jay was—in a big way.  He knows a lot about this kind of gear and it’s kind of fun to hear him talk about it.  Hi.

Cheers!

Dave W7AQK




From: Richard Solomon
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 8:51 AM
To: SADXA
Subject: [SADXA] Be The Big Gun on AM

 Don't see many of these up for
sale today. Very tempting.

Anyone up for a road trip ??  HI HI

*https://tinyurl.com/yc2esrog <https://tinyurl.com/yc2esrog>*

*73, Dick, W1KSZ*
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