The Gold Dust Twins
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Description: 75A4 and KWS-1 pictures and commentary.
The 75A-4 Receiver and the KWS-1 Transmitter A genuine piece of history and for me a real time machine. Click on the photo for the complete story of the 75A-4 used at W4THU. I can remember my high school days very well. They were exciting times. It was 1959 and I had a brand-new ham license. My first rig was a Knight T-50 and a BC-348. It was all I could afford as a teenager. Ads in the magazines and photos of "shacks" featured the incredible Collins "Gold Dust Twins." It is said that they were called that because they were so expensive. Together the 75A-4 and the KWS-1 sold for around $2500. That was really big bucks in those days, so there weren't many of these rigs made. If I recall correctly, there were only about 1600 KWS-1 transmitters and around 6000 75A-4's. No one really knows how many are left.
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