The Lost Decade

A 22-minute overview of the first ten years of Collins Radio.
This video was prepared for the Collins Collectors Association
All Rights Reserved and the Property of the CCA. Copyright 2013. Introduces Art Collins, the radio landscape of the late 1920's and early 1930's, then overviews 5 pre-war Collins transmitters. Produced by WA9MZU (now K6GLH) in 1998 for the Collins Collectors Association Convention in Dallas as part of J.B. Jenkins', W5EU, presentation on the early history of Collins Radio.

[@ampman1961]

Gary is the best! It's the reason why the people of tomorrow will know these histories and we cannot thank Gary and others like him enough. Truly remarkable. Thank you! 73 de Billy N6YW

[@dave1135]

Thanks for this video. My father was a long time engineer at Collins radio, retiring in 1972 when I was five to move to northeast Missouri. During his time there, he was on the development team that designed the communications equipment for the Apollo moon mission. He was also a avid ham buff, designing and building his own transmitters, receivers, and test equipment. During ww2, he worked overseas for the us army signal corps.

[@lesjones7019]

God bless your father

[@JCHaywire]

Interesting to hear this. My Grandpa spent just short of 40 years in the Metrology Lab. They gave him a watch when he retired. He resided near the Cedar Rapids facility until his passing in 2015.

[@davidkerl1431]

Wonderful video! I was happy to see the 20V-2 in there. I had 2 of them in the 1990's when no one wanted them. They came from the broadcast station in Park Falls, Wisconsin, and I was later forced to sell them to a retired VOA engineer that drove from western Colorado to northern Wisconsin to pick them up. Wish I still had them.Dave N9HF Ormond Beach, Fla.

[@MickLBrad]

What an outstanding collection of pre-war Collins transmitters and history of their design. Thanks to all who produced this magnificent video and sharing it. 73 de Mick - WB4LSS

[@984francis]

An excellent presentation, fascinating. Thanks.

[@KB4QAA]

Magnificent production. I will have to watch several times to take it all in! Thanks.

[@nodoubtca]

Without this video and the restoration story there would be almost no information available on the 30J which would have left the 30J lost. Thanks for bring the 30J back to life. David VE7EPP

[@rickvia8435]

Beautiful equipment. What a genius Art was.

[@ElPasoTubeAmps]

Love it - thank you

[@ElPasoTubeAmps]

I have a 30K-1 S/N 16 that I picked up in 1975 for $75 from a small town near Atlanta, GA.. Someone had tried to convert it to a CB linear and made somewhat of a mess of it. I decided to do more with it than keep it around as a museum piece and built power supplies in it to provide HV, bias and screen voltages and a tank circuit with vacuum capacitors and a roller inductor and put it to use as a 4CX1000A amplifier that I have used for over 30 years. A few years back I decided to play with different RF chassis and have since built RF decks for a pair of 4-400A in GG and a 3-1000Z. I have all of this documented on my QRZ page. WA4QGA Recently I was given, for free, a 30S-1 for the joy of repairing another 30S-1 and a Henry 2K. I use all of my equipment as often as I can rotating thru it to keep it all going including a homebrew AM station using the 310B and a James Millen amplifier running push-pull 812A. Modulation is a pair of 4-125A and a BC-610 modulation transformer. This is the equipment I wanted as a 13 year old kid when I got my general license in 1963 and now I can have and enjoy it at the age of 72. 73 WA4QGA

[@vonzigle]

Nicely done!

[@vu3mes]

awesome video

[@pcfrt]

Very good!! 73!

[@oh6cn]

Thanks for the video I am proud owner of a Collins 32v2 transmitter The first owner was W4MGT sk Henry E Hall

[@nakayle]

When I was a young ham Collins was the "Cadillac" but I had a HeathKit budget.

[@sundownsigns]

Me too.

[@markanderson8066]

still lacking a Collins budget, lol @@sundownsigns

[@hymatwat9412]

Nathan Kayle heathkits were good and out of my price range

[@jjharvathh]

Wow, amazing.

[@nunyabizness199]

Very nice !

[@CharlesHarpolek4vud]

the 75A4 sang a CW note the best you can hear.

[@thomthumbe]

One of my first tasks when I hired on with the US GOVT was to unbox new KWM2A’s and test each one before having them shipped to various overseas locations. About 25 years later, at an overseas wear house, the KWM2A had long since been removed from service, and I watched as a pile (literally thrown into a pile) of these radios was being ground up into metal strips, in a heavy duty metal grinder. They were not to be reclaimed or sold or anything. I was nearly in tears. Some had never once been used. I did claim a single, mint condition crystal pack…but it’s nothing more than a useless relic nowadays.

[@manoelmoura682]

Fantastic

[@SangiTariq]

Informative video

[@lucaclary8436]

Amazing

[@andrzejzawada6172]

An excellent presentation, fascinating. Thanks from Poland. Old Ham SP2EEF and 73!

[@Thermionman1970]

Wow ! The 30W .......look at the globetubes and the bug eye meters!!

[@NebukedNezzer]

very interesting

[@w1qg]

Fabulous.

[@charlesanton1778]

Unlimited data

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[@eazystreet5507]

So whats the best Collins receiver because my AR-88 is still so good

[@aerohk]

Collins is still around! It is call Rockwell Collins.

[@LifeIsTooShortForQRP]

Actually, now it is called "Collins Aerospace". And the new logo really sucks. Art Collins would not have approved. www.collinsaerospace.com/

[@ik1lbl]

Ho Bob !! i found this video just surfing on youtube ! idkn if you remembe me but some years a go you sell me a 75A-4 on ebay !!! was a marvellous day !!!! i hope you are fine ! best 73s de Mario IK1LBL

[@MVC670]

And external-grid tube? Quick! Make audiophile gear out of it! Quirky and requires tweaks? Even better! A goldmine is just waiting to be dug.

[@hubzcaps]

My 1011D lookin at me like. Your fired!!

[@lesjones7019]

I want a r 388

[@mohinderkaur6671]

Closed Caption is full of errors! Thanks gooble

[@captlarry-3525]

A for content and guffaw for the auto character generator..

[@gonebamboo4116]

4:25. Two hundred thirty-five gold backed dollars, about 11 1/2 troy ounces of gold?

[@bobmarker6812]

UV-203 Tube from 1925(?) $30.00. In 2020, that's $440.00 NOT a cheap hobby!!

[@DvorTerrier]

Not cheap compared to WHAT? A friend of mine criticized me for spending a few grand on a camera and lenses, but when I asked him how much his boat was, he started laughing -- "Good point!" My nephew's hobby is riding a motorcycle; IS IT CHEAP? Over $30,000. Another friend of mine loves to travel... do you want me to go on?)) When Benny Hill died, it turned out that he had a crapload of money, but nothing else; no hobby stuff, no great clothes,... Now, THAT'S cheap!))

[@user-cn5kv5ey4c]

👍UA3KBD, Москва, 1966... 🙉

[@nostalgia6578]

The closed captioning is inaccurate, somewhat amusing, and overall annoying as hell. Fix it!!!

[@lesjones7019]

Who will sell me a r 388.

[@jocoks]

Was the person who did the captioning deaf or drunk? What a horrible job!

[@MauriatOttolink]

Crap voice recognition system. As they must have known that it couldn't cope with rather erratic American English (for want of a better name) why didn't they just switch it off?

[@geckoproductions4128]

Fascinating! 73 de N5RXP