Collins Est. 1932 , closed 1974 | USA

The Collins Radio Company was founded by Arthur Collins in Cedar Rapids in 1932. The company started business constructing transmitters and amateur radio equipment and got much experience producing aeronautical transceivers and transmitters during wartime. This experience was used in the production of amateur radio receivers (the famous 75-A series) after the war.

After 1949, Collins brought out communication receivers covering not only the ham bands but the complete shortwave spectrum. These sets startiung with the 51J / 51-J with linear analog dials covering the shortwave spectrum in 30 1-MHz-segments were very successful. The Collins 51J-3 (and it's military variant Collins R-388/URR) was equipped with coil filters, the Collins 51J-4 (military variant R-388A) was the first Collins set using their very famous mechanical filters, it appeared on the market in 1957.

It's military successor was the 1951 model Collins R-390/URR with it's mechanical digital frequency display (frequency readout on a kind of odometer), and the later Collins R-390A/URR, which gives nearly unsurpassed AM reception on the tropical bands with. You find the Collins mechanical filters 16/8/4/2/1/0,1 kHz only in this popular variant - it has been produced by a series of other companies under contract.

For civilian use, Collins had a range of smaller lightweight amateur band receivers, the legendary Collins 51S-1 covering the complete shortwave spectrum from 200 kHz - 30 MHz in 1 MHz segments offered a linear analog dial with a dial resolution of better than 500 Hz and was fully equipped with tubes.

Collins was taken over by Rockwell Intl. in 1974 and is since then still very active in the military and aeronautical communications segment.

Collins 32S-1 32S-1
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
USA-USA
RX
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-
TX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
Collins 32S-3 32S-3
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1963-19xx
RX
-
-
TX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
Collins 32S-3A 32S-3A
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
196x-196x
RX
-
-
TX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
Collins 32V-1 32V-1
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
194x-19xx
RX
-
-
TX
AM   CW  
10-80 m
Collins 32V-2 32V-2
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1950-195x
RX
-
-
TX
AM   CW  
10-80 m
Collins 32V-3 32V-3
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1951-195x
RX
-
-
TX
AM   CW  
10-80 m
Collins 51-Q 51-Q
Desktop Shortwave receiver
194x-194x
RX
AM   CW  
1.5-12 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 51J-1 51J-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1949-1951
RX
AM   CW  
0.5-30.5 MHz in 30×1000 kHz bands
TX
-
-
Collins 51J-2 51J-2
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1950-195x
RX
AM   CW  
0.5-30.5 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 51J-3 51J-3
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1952-1956
RX
AM   CW  
0.54-30.5 MHz in 30 bands
TX
-
-
Collins 51J-4 51J-4
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1957-1963
RX
AM   CW  
0.54-30.5 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 51S-1 51S-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1959-1975
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.2-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 75A-1 75A-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1947-1950
RX
AM   CW  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75A-2 75A-2
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1951-195x
RX
AM   FM   CW  
10-160 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75A-3 75A-3
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1952-1954
RX
AM   FM   CW  
10-160 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75A-4 75A-4
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1955-19xx
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-160 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-1 75S-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-2 75S-2
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-3 75S-3
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1961-1964
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-3A 75S-3A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
AM   CW   USB   LSB  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-3B 75S-3B
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1963-1975
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
-
-
Collins 75S-3C 75S-3C
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1964-1975
RX
AM   CW   USB   LSB  
10-80 m + 14 additional 200 kHz crystal positions
TX
-
-
Collins 95S-1A 95S-1A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1995-2000
RX
AM   FM   W-FM   CW   SSB   ISB  
5 kHz - 2000 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 310A-3 / 30K-1 310A-3 / 30K-1
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1948-19xx
RX
-
-
TX
AM   CW  
10-80 m
Collins 310B-1 310B-1
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1947-19xx
RX
-
-
TX
CW  
10-80 m
Collins 312B-4/5 312B-4/5
Desktop Shortwave Station Control
19xx-19xx
RX
All mode  
2-30MHz
TX
All mode  
Collins 399C-1 399C-1
Desktop Shortwave VFO
1959-196x
RX
-
-
TX
-
Collins 451S-1 451S-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
AM   CW   USB   LSB   FSK  
0.2-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 651S-1 651S-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1971-1973
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.25-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins 851S-1 851S-1
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
-
?-? MHz
TX
-
-
Collins HF-380 HF-380
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
1979-1983
RX
AM   CW   USB   LSB  
10-160 m (0.5-30 MHz continuous)
TX
CW   USB   LSB  
0.5-30 MHz
Collins HF-2050 HF-2050
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1984-1987
RX
AM   FM   CW   SSB   ISB  
0.014-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins HF-8050A HF-8050A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
198x-198x
RX
AM   FM   CW   SSB   ISB  
0.25-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins HF-8054A HF-8054A
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1982-1986
RX
AM   FM   CW   SSB   ISB  
0.25-30 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins KW-1 KW-1
Desktop Shortwave Transmitter
1950-195x
RX
-
-
TX
AM   FM   CW  
10-160 m
Collins KWM-1 KWM-1
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
1957-19xx
RX
CW   SSB  
10-20 m
TX
CW   SSB  
10-20 m
Collins KWM-2 KWM-2
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
1959-19xx
RX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
Collins KWM-2A KWM-2A
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
1959-19xx
RX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
TX
CW   SSB  
10-80 m
Collins KWM-380 KWM-380
Desktop Shortwave Transceiver
198x-198x
RX
AM   CW   USB   LSB  
0.5-30 MHz
TX
CW   USB   LSB  
160-10 m
Collins R-381 R-381
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1950-195x
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.5-30.5 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins R-388/URR R-388/URR
Desktop Shortwave receiver
19xx-19xx
RX
AM   CW  
0.5-30.5 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins R-389/URR R-389/URR
Desktop ULF/VLF Receiver
1951-19xx
RX
AM   CW   FSK  
15-500 / 500-1500 kHz (2 ranges, 7 bands)
TX
-
-
Collins R-390/URR R-390/URR
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1950-1954
RX
AM   CW  
0.5-32 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins R-390A/URR R-390A/URR
Desktop Shortwave receiver
1954-1985
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.5-32 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins R-391 R-391
Desktop Shortwave receiver
USA-USA
RX
AM   CW   SSB  
0.5-32 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins R-392/URR R-392/URR
Desktop Shortwave receiver
195x-195x
RX
AM   CW  
0.5-32 MHz
TX
-
-
Collins T-47 / ART-13 T-47 / ART-13
WWII Shortwave Transmitter
1943-194x
RX
-
-
TX
AM   CW  
2-18 MHz 200-600 / 1500 kHz optional
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