Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
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Speaking of Collins, I have my Dad's S-line and his KWM-2 "mobile"
transceiver which was a civilian version of a Navy aircraft
transceiver.



KWM-2 was a ham rig the military adopted as the KWM-2A, which had a crystal
pack and an extra row of local oscillator crystals you could switch to to
operate out of the ham bands on other 500 Khz bandspreads. I had a
suitcase radio KWM-2A, full crystal pack, Samsonite suitcase made for it,
pull out long steel tape dipole calibrated in Mhz, with portable PM-2 power
supply that plugged neatly into the back of the KWM-2A that came from
Vietnam where they threw away thousands of them to try to help Collins and
later Rockwell get rich. They were great transceivers and very portable
for their day. Just carry it with your own suitcase....(c;



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