Collins 32S-3 and 75S-3B power connector pin-outs

I just inherited a Collins 32S-3 transmitter and 75S-3B receiver, but only one power cable with no indication which unit belongs to that power cable.

Does anyone have the pin-out of the power connectors on the 32S-3 and 75S-3B? If so, I would greatly appreciate that information.

Surfin': DCC at BDL

The 2007 installment of the ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference is coming to an airport near me (and maybe you) and this week's Surfin' tells you all about it. After you read Surfin’, you can leave your comments here.

By the way, Surfin’ is a weekly column published on ARRLWeb that finds and features Web sites that are related to Amateur Radio, specifically, and radio, in general. If you have any suggestions for Surfin’, please contact WA1LOU using the e-mail link to the right.

144-MHz DX

After a few quiet days, the band opened up yesterday and is open this morning. So far, the most distant station heard directly* by my APRS digi station is N3KTX-8 in Ocean City, MD (which is right on the ocean) over a 248-mile 207° path.

* Directly meaning station-to-station and not via any repeaters

mad about Mad

Out of the blue, I received an e-mail from Dick DeBartolo. Dick has been a writer for Mad magazine for 40 years and has a daily podcast called The Giz Wiz.

He wrote to me because one of his podcast listeners mentioned my blog's slogan, "My subscription to Life expired, but I still have a subscription to Mad." I came up with it and it resides at the top of the column just to the right.

In his e-mail, Dick also kind of introduced himself and invited me to tour the Mad offices next time I am in the City.

Dick needed no introduction. I have been reading Mad since 1961 and am a big fan of the magazine, so I was certainly familiar with his great body of work and I was elated to receive an e-mail from "Mad's maddest writer."

I mentioned how my Dad worked at Eastern Color Printing Company, where the comic book was invented, and how they printed the four-color inserts for some of the Mad annuals back in the 1960's. Do you remember the Sunday Comic Section, Sing Along With Mad, and the Alfred E. Neuman life-size poster? They were all printed in my Dad's shop.

In response, Dick mentioned how Mad founder, Bill Gaines, claimed that his father, Max Gaines, had invented the comic book. How did that jive with my claim that Eastern Color invented the comic book? Well, Max Gaines worked for Eastern Color. (You can read about it here.)

Anyway, I will be visiting the City next month and plan to stop by the Mad offices for the official tour.

144-MHz DX

The band has been open up and down the East Coast (southwestern Maine to southeastern Pennsylvania) for two days. The most distant station heard directly* by my APRS digi station is N3KTX-9 near Millersville, PA, over a 211-mile 238° path.

* Directly meaning station-to-station and not via any repeaters