*Could someone please give me the address to that warehouse?? Well, back to
the restoration of this old FLdx400 Transmitter. The FRdx400 receiver came
out Great. Not many of these old Yaesu Twins around anymore. Everybody went
Hog Wild over the Cheaper FT-101 series. With the Military going to
Satellite for the most part. They may need all that Collins gear someday.
Does the Military not understand that in a War.... the Satellites are the
first things to go from a Communications stand point. Well, we can only
hope that we never need to find out.*
*
Wade/KJ4WS*
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Jim Allen <jim.allen@longhornband.net>wrote:
> You mean, maybe there are warehouses full of KWM2s somewhere, like the old
> ARC-5's?
>
> 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Dave Edwards <kd2e@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Also interesting (to think about)...
> > I wonder what percentage of them still exist today?
> >
> > How many does the government still own?
> >
> > How many remain on dusty shelves somewhere....unopened???
> >
> > ....Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/14/14, 9:56 AM, Rsoifer@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> I asked Rod, K0DAS (retired from Rockwell Collins), how many KWM-2s
> were
> >> bought by hams rather than Uncle Sam. He said that nobody really
> knows,
> >> but
> >> his best guess is that the U.S. armed forces bought between 1/4 and 1/3
> >> of
> >> them. Some went to other government agencies as well as foreign
> >> governments. That still leaves quite a few that were bought by hams
> >> like me.
> >> 73 Ray W2RS
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