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W8ZR

10/14/2017

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Episode 167 - Jim Garland - W8ZR

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Inspired by one of his home brew elmers, Jim Garland, W8ZR, uses his electronics and metal fabrication workbench to create beautiful ham radio projects (a few displayed in QST magazine)  and he restores old vintage boat anchor transmitters and receivers that he rotates through his three operating positions at his QTH in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Jim tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.

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Jim Garland, W8ZR’s, website

First License: Age 11, 1954, WN0ZKE
General upgrade: Age 12, W0ZKE
UK callsign: G5APG,
Callsign change: 1969, W8KFL


First Rig: 
Heathkit AT1 transmitter
Heathkit AR3 Receiver
After General Class upgrade
Harold Bourell, W6NZ,  FCC examiner, was a master home-brewer

32V7 Homebrew Transmitter by Harold Bourell
First contact: W0ZKW, Kansas City
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Collins 75A1

Cornell University,  PHD Physics

Cambridge Fellowship, Physics

Solid State Experimental Physics  became condensed matter physics

Ohio State University, Department of Physics

Johnson Viking Kilowatt

Johnson Desktop Kilowatt Amplifier another look

Collins S Line,

Collins 32S-3 transmitter

Collins  75S-3C

Collins 30L-1 amplifier,

Collins 30S-1 amplifier

Drake C Line

Multi Elmac AF68 Transmitter

Multi Elmac PMR8 Receiver

Senator Barry Goldwater, K3UIG

Drake “5” line included a Drake TR5 transceiver
Dual conversion receiver

Sideband Engineering SBE33

National HRO600 receiver - nixie tube digital display

W8ZR Station Pro radio switching system

“If it doesn’t look good, it isn’t good” - Jim’s Ohio State Physics lab moto

Most challenging home-brew project: W8ZR StationPro Controller

QSK switching - full break in CW

Omniglyph circuit board design software - Jim’s CAD software for schematic capture and board layout.

4XC250B Tetrode

Sources of parts for homebrew and old rig reconstruction:
  • Hamfests great source of old parts
  • Ebay for unusual power supplies and stepper motors
  • QTH.com for classified section

Stepper Motor

Favorite contest: CQ Worldwide DX contest

Versakeyer by Paul Horowitz - QST Magazine, May 1979

The Art of Electronics - Paul Horowitz

Begali Sculpture Paddle

Chevron CW Paddle from England

Kingman Reef DXpedition KP6KR
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Most excited by:
New types of communications technology, SDR, astonishing technical development

FlexRadio 6300 transceiver

Elecraft K3

Nationwide Radio and Equipment Sales

Advice to new or returning hams:
  • Don’t bite off more than you can chew.
  • Buy something used, lowend and simple
SOTA - Summits on the Air

​Beverage Receive Antenna

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National HRO 600 Receiver
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Home brew transmitter was based on the Collins 32V3 AM transmitter by Harold Bourell, W6NZ
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Multi Elmac Station 
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W8ZR Operating Console
5 Comments
David Jaeb
10/17/2017 10:25:59 pm

Episode 167 with Jim Garland was one of the best . A very interesting fellow , wish I could absorb some of what he knows !
Thanks for the interview.

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Paul Mandel
10/18/2017 11:50:29 am

I agree. I built his station pro project and the documentation was top rate. I do think that the current generation is lacking in hobbies. No just ours but all hobbies.

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Maurizio
11/29/2017 08:20:49 am

Hi, I'm I5QMF. Unfortunately, I do not know why, since 2001 I stopped working as an amateur radio operator. The great passion I had in the past 20 years has suddenly ceased. Now my wife would like to retrieve a 7 meter x 4 room that was my playroom and that I had filled the impossible with all kinds of old and new radio. Since among the many radio I have a Drake Rx 1-a I would like to have your opinion on its possible present value.
Sorry if I contact you this way but I did not find a better way.
I thank you for your attention and I am waiting for your welcome reply.
73 de I5QMF
Maurizio

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Ted
7/27/2018 11:27:22 am

Fascinating interview. Being a similar vintage as W8ZR, my dreams and personal experiences with ham radio parallel his, and I look forward to meeting him here in Santa Fe. Well done!

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James avers
9/12/2022 11:37:08 am

I have Steve shares fpm-200 I am pretty sure. I have built radios for nearly all my life. Talked to you once on the air but I guess I offended you in some way. Did not mean to it just happens some time. I am not a college trained engineer. FYI KB0TEV

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