Collins-Amateur-Radio

MONTHLY REMINDER--Our Amateur Radio Groups

@... — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:32:26 -0700

MONTHLY REMINDER--Our Amateur Radio Groups

Below are our amateur radio related groups. Some may be new enough there are only a few members. If one of those interests you, join it and give it some time to grow. It costs nothing and if there’s few members, it won’t be filling up your inbox while you wait for it to grow. 😊

Alinco /g/Alinco-Amateur-Radio

Antenna Tuners /g/Antenna-Tuners

Anytone /g/Anytone-Amateur-Radio

Baofeng /g/Baofeng

CHIRP radio programming tool /g/CHIRP

EF Johnson /g/EFJohnson-Amateur-Radio

Ham radio antennas https://ham-antennas.groups.io/g/main

Ham Radio Help group https://hamradiohelp.groups.io/g/main

Icom /g/ICOM

Icom 746 /g/Icom-746

Icom 746 Pro /g/Icom-746Pro

Kenwood /g/Kenwood-Amateur-Radio

MFJ ham equipment /g/MFJ-Amateur-Radio

National /g/National-Amateur-Radio

RF Amplifiers https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main

Swan /g/Swan-Amateur-Radio

Yaesu FT-757 /g/FT-757GX

Yaesu FT-767GX /g/FT-767GX

We're going to combine Collins groups, then close this one and re-purpose it

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:50:55 -0700

To avoid duplication of effort and pool our resources together, we're going to close this group and ask everyone from here to move to the other group. Directions on how to do that are below. I don't know if the moderator of the other group knows how to do a mass invitation or not, but you can join without an invitation following the information below.

The other group has file and picture storage, since it is a legacy basic group created before they started removing features of basic groups. It also has a much broader membership base, with 168 members currently. Like this one, it's rather quiet, but will no doubt come to life when someone needs help. How this move will work is I'll close this group to new members. At some point in time I'll re-purpose this group for another ham radio theme, so you may want to remain members here to wait and see what happens, and then decide whether to stay or not in the new group.

To join, read the information Jim sent carefully, especially the part at the bottom in bold/italic text. They need to know your call sign or why you want to join, probably to keep CB'ers from joining and modifying (destroying) a good piece of Collins equipment to use it on the CB bands illegally at high power (high power compared to the 4 or 5 watts a legal CB radio will have).

Donald KX8K
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Here's how you join the other group (quoting Jim from the other group).

To join, your members can send a blank email message to:

[email protected]" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">[email protected]

If they go to:

/g/CollinsRadios

and select "Join" that would work too.

Either way, they need to email us (owner at [email protected] ) and tell us their amateur call sign. If no call then why they want to join (own a particular piece of Collins gear, etc). Or tell us they are coming from your list.

KWM-2 to power supply PM-2

lrochs2013@... (KA0TAO Larry) — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:24:37 -0700

I would like to find where I can obtain the nut set and knobs to attach the PM-2 to my KWM-2.
73 Larry KA0TAO

Wanted

@... — Mon, 23 May 2022 04:26:30 -0700

Hi
I am looking for 51s1 in high serial number EU only need to be in clean working order
Vy 73 ea5iwt/g0uut

Selling in the group

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Thu, 19 May 2022 10:36:44 -0700

Selling is allowed in this group for ham radio equipment only, and at least one of the items for sale must be related to the purpose of the group. We require that anything being sold here have a price with it. So "make offer" or anything like that will not be an acceptable post here. Please indicate if shipping is included, otherwise leave it out. Also, please indicate the general location of the equipment for sale, so others will know if it’s within driving distance for them, and if you're willing to meet someone X miles away from that location.

If you have any information about the item, please add it, as it will make it more likely that it will sell.

Just list similar to the following. This was a suggestion for the SWAN-AMATEUR-RADIO group. Just replace the Swan item with one that would fit the purpose of this group:

Swan 350D, great cosmetic condition, may need new final tubes since output drops somewhat on 15 and 10 meters. Model 117XC AC power supply included. Asking $325.00 OBO. Located near Charlotte, NC. Will drive up to 25 miles from Charlotte for pickup or delivery. Call 444-444-4444, or email hamoperator@....

Re: WATERS NUVERTER

sgm460122@... (RICH WA6KNW) — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:23:14 -0800

Yes this one has a 6DS4 for V1, V2, V5 & V6. And a 6CW4 for V3 & V4.
It's possible a previous owner did some tube swapping/replacements.
According to the data sheets it looks like they are interchangeable. I'll
wait for a manual/schematic before I attempt any operation.

Re: WATERS NUVERTER

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:46:29 -0800

Rich . . .

On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:21:54 -0800, "RICH WA6KNW via groups.io"
<sgm460122@...> wrote:

The Waters Nuverter was designed to work with the COLLINS S-Line/KWM-2 equipment.

Was this a converter using the Nuvistor technology of the time? I understand
that they were tiny tubes, about the time the transistor was appearing on the
market?

Donald KX8K

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main

Re: WATERS NUVERTER

sgm460122@... (RICH WA6KNW) — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:24:26 -0800

The Waters Nuverter was designed to work with the COLLINS S-Line/KWM-2 equipment.
RICH WA6KNW

Re: WATERS NUVERTER

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:35:15 -0800

Dick . . .

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 18:25:52 -0800, "RICH WA6KNW via groups.io"
<sgm460122@...> wrote:

Does anyone have a Waters Model 346 Nuverter manual and if so, could I get a copy of it or any other information that you may have?

If this wasn't limited to just Collins equipment, you can try some of the other
vintage radio groups like the ones for Drake, Swan, Hammarlund, etc., and also
amateur-repairs and hamradiohelp.

If you need links reply and let me know.

Donald KX8K

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main

WATERS NUVERTER

sgm460122@... (RICH WA6KNW) — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:36:09 -0800

RICH WA6KNW

20.11.2021 #189

Does anyone have a Waters Model 346 Nuverter manual and if so, could I get a copy of it or any other information that you may have? Thank you,

RICH WA6KNW

need a moderator or two

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:01:09 -0700

We're looking for another moderator or two. Any volunteers? There is no prerequisite knowledge needed of knowing how to operate a group here. With no additional moderators and my age/health, this group will cease to function properly if I get seriously sick or die. We can use a volunteer or two. There are only two of us now, and if the group becomes more active over time, this could be a concern for all of you.

New ham groups added, new groups.io pricing structure on Jan 18, 2021 (long post, intentionally cross-posted)

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:59:37 -0800

First, the new pricing structure for NEWLY formed groups on groups.io
beginning January 18, 2021.

Basic (free) groups formed on or after that date stay free *up to 100
members*. After that, it will need to be upgraded to a premium group.
Premium groups ($220/year) are good up to 400 members, after which a
per-member fee ($.05 per month or $0.55 per year) is added to the $220
per year premium group fee. That will bring a burden on some new
groups, so I created some more ham groups that may grow, or flounder,
but I wanted to beat the deadline so those groups will not be charged
extra fees, or any fees, for that matter. If they take off and are
useful, that will be great. If they flounder, I might just delete the
group if members agree, or if there are no co-owners by the time I
review whether the group is worth keeping.

If you were thinking of creating a group for one of your interests,
THIS IS THE TIME TO DO SO before the new pricing structure goes into
effect. If you need help with that, email me *privately* and if I'm
not overwhelmed with requests, I will try to help. You must be willing
to assume group ownership as I will leave the group after creating it
and you've been made a group owner. If you need help getting started
with the group, I can hang around for a short while and direct you to
documentation on how to run a group.

As for the new groups I created last evening, I will list their web
addresses below.

Please contact me *privately* ONLY IF you are interested in joining
one of these groups AND ARE UNABLE to use the join button on the web
site or find the join process confusing. I would like to avoid what
happened when Yahoo closed their groups and I offered to help people
if they were unable to join themselves. I was overwhelmed with
requests to help, and I'm sure not all of those were from people who
had difficulty joining, so please give it a try yourself first. Go to
the site and press the join button on the group(s) you are interested
in. Follow the simple instructions and you will be approved. All new
members will be moderated for a short time so don't expect to post
immediately. There's only one moderator right now (me), and I work for
a living, sleep at night, and take naps because of my health condition
in late afternoons sometimes. I donate some of my time for community
work, am a minister, and have to wisely use my time.

But I don't want anyone to not join one of these groups because they
find it difficult to join.

YOU CAN JOIN ANY OF THESE GROUPS BY EMAIL by sending a message to the
subscribe address. Take the web address name at the end of the URL and
change it by adding [email protected] to it.

For the FT-757 group (as an example):
/g/FT-757GX
Send an email to this address:
[email protected]
no body text is required in the message, just the address, but to make
your email program happy, you can put the word subscribe in the
subject and message fields.

These new lists are email reflectors only with no storage (a change
that was made almost a year ago by GIO's owner). If I had created them
before February 2020, they would have storage. We will work something
out for storage if the groups get large enough and have a need for
that.

I will need moderators for these new groups, and soon after they get
on their feet, a co-owner who has some real interest and hopefully
experience with these different brands of radios.

Contact me off-list if you are interested in volunteering with any of
these groups. I will help you out with anything you need to know about
how to manage a group as a moderator or co-owner.

I will list the NEW groups first, then list the other amateur radio
groups I created.

Note that most of these are not model-specific and are
"general-purpose" groups for a BRAND of radio or a general-purpose
group for a type of equipment. I did not create any group for which
there already was a general-purpose discussion group for that brand of
radio, like Drake and some others. I am not interested in amassing a
lot of groups to manage. My purpose is just to see that interests in
major amateur radio brands are covered by some group for our amateur
radio community.

Let me know *privately* if I missed a MAJOR brand of vintage or
current brand of amateur radio and I will decide if I want to create a
group for that, but I'm not interested in managing lots and lots of
ham groups. My purpose is to get these groups created so they will be
grandfathered under the old pricing structure and won't cost the group
owner (me) money based on how many members there are.

Antennas will be covered by our ham-antennas group, so I didn't think
creating a new group for the major makers of antennas would be useful
and might just splinter the community across more groups. The antenna
tuners group is not approved yet but should be by later today so you
should be able to join in a few hours if you're interested.

The NEW groups are:

Alinco /g/Alinco-Amateur-Radio
Antenna Tuners /g/Antenna-Tuners
Anytone /g/Anytone-Amateur-Radio
Collins /g/Collins-Amateur-Radio
EF Johnson /g/EFJohnson-Amateur-Radio
Kenwood /g/Kenwood-Amateur-Radio
MFJ ham equipment /g/MFJ-Amateur-Radio
National /g/National-Amateur-Radio
Swan /g/Swan-Amateur-Radio

Existing groups created previously:

Baofeng /g/Baofeng
CHIRP radio programming tool /g/CHIRP
Yaesu FT-757 /g/FT-757GX
Yaesu FT-767GX /g/FT-767GX (only 1 member, me)
Ham radio antennas https://ham-antennas.groups.io/g/main
Ham Radio Help group https://hamradiohelp.groups.io/g/main
Icom /g/ICOM
Icom 746 /g/Icom-746
Icom 746 Pro /g/Icom-746Pro
RF Amplifiers https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main

Donald -- AD8DY
Formerly KJ3I

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main

New ham groups, also new pricing structure for groups

donhellen@... (Donald Hellen) — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:59:16 -0800

The next message is about some new groups I created to have a
general-purpose discussion group for some brands of amateur radio
equipment and radios before groups.io's new pricing structure goes
into effect Jan 81, 2021.

It is a long message, so I just wanted to give you a heads-up. I
cross-posted it to all the groups I manage.

I will be looking for moderators for the new groups and even some of
the established groups, so if you're interested in helping, please
email me privately about this.

For the rest, please read my next post. It's a long and detailed one.

Donald -- AD8DY
Formerly KJ3I

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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
/g/CHIRP https://rf-amplifiers.groups.io/g/main