Re: {Collins} [Collins] Where did the S Line crowd go?

[ED SHARPE <couryhouse@xxxxxxx>]

Good  to  have  a  new  user! Welcome!

Ed#

In a message dated 8/9/2019 12:10:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I am the new owner of my first S-line although I'm not sure if I qualify as
the younger crowd... maybe?  I'm 53 and I am trying to recreate my
grandfather's station from the late 1960's.

I have the S-line now, so once I find a 30K-5 I will have all of the
pieces!  I think I might have to hit the lottery to be able to afford one
though :(

Brian W6BRY

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, 1:17 AM ED SHARPE via Collins <collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> in looking  for the  home rig  the s line is a but larger than kwm-2.
> In a message dated 8/8/2019 11:22:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Well old crowd slowing  down,  I  guess! ?
> I noticed  when I joined a  few  years back
> it was busier but that was also the anniversary yearwith great excitement
> and celebration.!
> I so prize those  SIGNAL issues  from that year. They have a specialplace
> in the SMECC museum library especially nice  was  the coverageof the
> non-radio Collins items.  As Art Collins had  been friends  since
> youththere  were  some  of that history brought out.  Also  Salisbury was
> director  of researchin the  interesting  part of  Collins history with
> Collins cyclotrons  etc  Since we have Salisbury'slibrary, papers, photos,
> notes  etc  here at  SMECC We are  almost more  preoccupied  with the
> non radio  Collins history
> My aim with the KWM-2A  is  MARS station at Luke  AFB  recreationbut  I
> think I  want  one  as  my  rig  for  home  too. In looking  at an s line
> forhome  use  I  do not  know I  want  something  that  large.!
>
> We have a KWS-1 at the museum and need to get a matching  RX at some point.
> OK but  mostly perhaps  the older  folk  are  slowing down and  are the
> young  people clamoring  to  get an S Line? Some may be ... but... I  am
> not convinced...
> Guess we  need  to make  sure  some of them  get  exposed and
> interested!!!
> Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 8/8/2019 6:12:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> From: Doug Hensley <w5jv@xxxxxxxxxxx>To: <collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent:
> 8/8/2019 12:18:35 PMSubject: [Collins] Where did the S Line crowd go?
>
>
>
> Anyone know where the S Line crowd went?  Hard to believe in just a few
> years that there is no discussion on this list.
> Doug W5JV
>
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