Collins was a class act and a great product. Rockwell on the other hand is not known for its quality. Hence the end of the days when a Collins receiver was an almost automatic standard.
When Rockwell took over Collins, the engineer's complained about releasing the KWM-380 too early. This was ignored, and the result was about 20 mods that needed to be done. Had they waited to work out the bugs first, this could have been eliminated.
Love this receiver. Its got its own sound. Used one back in the 80s and would love to own one now.
If I'm not mistaken, using USB rather than LSB to monitor the phone signals would work better at these frequencies.
Collins was a class act and a great product. Rockwell on the other hand is not known for its quality. Hence the end of the days when a Collins receiver was an almost automatic standard.
Man I want one BAD!
Awesome!
When Rockwell took over Collins, the engineer's complained about releasing the KWM-380 too early. This was ignored, and the result was about 20 mods that needed to be done. Had they waited to work out the bugs first, this could have been eliminated.
like using low-grade quality tantalum capacitors...
Looks like a nice AM-FM table radio. The switches sound very clunky and annoyingly noisy. Not at all like classic Collins switchgear.
I have a HF380 full opt, a KWM380, a KWM380 not working and not have the cabinet
to sell.aSM280. any ideas????
Hi Still you have those, I want to buy....?
i am not the owner, it is not for sell.