Art,

Congratulations on the new subharmonic, as well as successfully completing work on the KWM-2.  My first exposure to the KWM-2 was at the Department of State radio club, where an older one no longer suitable for use at overseas embassies was re-purposed.  It had the only noise blanker/limiter that I ever experienced that could reduce the “woodpecker” signals from S9+20db down to S5 or S6, which was enough to pull some signals through for QSOs.  By comparison, the noise blanker on my new Drake R4C was useless for this purpose, but I still couldn’t afford a KWM-2.

73, Dave K3ZJ

From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of Art Zygielbaum <k0aiz@arrl.org>
Date: Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 4:13 PM
To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org>
Subject: [arrl-odv:33805] Field Day and sharing good news

This was a great weekend for a couple of reasons.  On Friday, our newest subharmonic appeared.  Isaac Armas Zygielbaum arrived on Friday afternoon in Torrance, CA.  He is our first grandson.  He joins two older sisters (2 and 4 years old).  His picture is included below.

As some of you know, the newest facet of my ham radio hobby has been to collect one each of all the radios I owned or had access to as a teenager.  (June 28 will be the 61st anniversary of my first ham license.)  Being a teen without a lot of money, my radios tended to used and fairly inexpensive.  Every field day one of our club members, a rich doctor, brought his Collins KWM-2 to our club field day site.  I lusted after that radio.  It cost $1,751 in 1962.  (That's close to $17,000 in today's dollars.)

I bought one,  I finished recapping it, replacing bad tubes, etc., last Thursday night.  I operated Class 1D using that radio during this field day.  Pretty amazing.  It's been nearly 60 years since the last time I operated a KWM-2 during field day.  It's picture, in my basement boat-anchor-shack also appears below.

Hope you all had a great weekend.

73 Art K0AIZ

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Arthur I. Zygielbaum, K0AIZ
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