{"id":8732,"date":"2016-02-10T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/single-sideband-carrier-the-collins-kws-1\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:15:14","slug":"single-sideband-carrier-the-collins-kws-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/single-sideband-carrier-the-collins-kws-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Sideband + Carrier — The Collins KWS-1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/b> Back on 2 February I was on 160 AM with the DX-100, talking to WA4PGI. At the end of our QSO we got a call from a station. I was at first confused — was this station calling on SSB? Or was he calling on AM? Turns out that he was — in a way — on BOTH. K4DBK was — I think — running an old Collins KWS-1, the transmit side of the famous Gold Dust Twins. Aptly named: It was built in 1955. 1000 watts output. $2095.00 in 1955. Gold dust indeed. <\/b> <\/p>\n


<\/b> The really interesting thing about this rig was that it put out CW, SSB and SSB plus the carrier. I think that was what we were hearing from K4DBK. FB. <\/b><\/div>\n

<\/b> Does anyone have an e-mail address for K4DBK? I’d like to drop him a line. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Back on 2 February I was on 160 AM with the DX-100, talking to WA4PGI. At the end of our QSO we got a call from a station. I was at first confused — was this station calling on SSB? Or was he calling on AM? Turns out that he was — in a way … Continue reading “Single Sideband + Carrier — The Collins KWS-1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,130,100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-160-meters","category-am","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8732\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}