[SADXA] Be The Big Gun on AM

[Jerry]

I remember many years ago when I worked for Burghardt Radio in Watertown 
SD, the story went around about when they delivered a Johnson desk to 
W0NNX,"Dad", who lived in a rickety old farm house. The were afraid to 
roll it across the floor, bringing it in as they were afraid it would 
end up in the basement. So they cleared the area next to the wall and 
wheeled it over there to the operating position.

Now that is a real radio that you have to be careful it will not go 
through the floor.

W0NNX, as it goes, had a long wire antenna that started at the radio and 
went up to a window above it where someone had shot a 22 thru the window 
to make a hole for the wire running out to a post.

W0NNX had a huge signal and had that typical, THUNK, when he came on the 
air.

Funny stuff

W6XI


On 11/6/2018 2:04 PM, dyarnes wrote:
> 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:
>
> ----
> 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.,
> ----
> 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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