[SADXA] Be The Big Gun on AM

[Richard Solomon]

It's a shame that it is on
the East Coast, a tad too
far for a road trip.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 9:09 PM Jerry <jdwothe at cox.net> wrote:

> 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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