Alan's Silent Key Collection
This week I had the responsibility of managing a Silent Key collection for the first time. Most hams will know that SKs are radio amateurs who have passed away. My wife's uncle Alan passed away in 2017 almost 3 years ago, but I learned over Thanksgiving that he had an amateur license (ex-N0JAU), as did his father-in-law Dick (ex-W7CRZ) who passed in 2006. Their family still had all of the radio equipment and didn't really have a way to distribute it, and were looking to free up the space. I knew that there are hamfests every couple of months in the Denver area and offered to help sell it off. Alan's widow offered that I should keep anything I found useful, which is a very gracious gift, and send back proceeds from only sales. Over the weekend of Feb. 8th, I drove down to New Mexico where Alan and Dick's family still lives. We loaded up several moving boxes of various transceivers, test equipment, and cables. We also took down a 25' antenna, which was tricky with n...
