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Jim Maxwell W6CF and Library

The James Maxwell Memorial Reference Library & Amateur Station W6CF

Former CHRS member Jim Maxwell had amassed one of the largest libraries anywhere of all things radio, electricity and electronics. Jim was a Silicon Valley engineer, a leader in the A.R.R.L., and along with wife Trudy, a trainer of personnel in the use of emergency radio. He held amateur call W6CF. We are on the air with his equipment and
call from KRE. Contact Head Ham John Staples about W6CF. The Yasme Foundation has just donated $2,000 to CHRS in honor of Jim Maxwell and W6CF | Download our QSL

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 		VIDEO: Paul Shinn Restores a Halicrafters Keyer for W6CF: "I got the crazy idea to see if it would key a large FM broadcast transmitter, and how it might sound on the air. So, with nothing much going on, I did just that. In the solid state FM rig, all it had to do was key the 1-watt exciter RF into the IPA for clean sounding CW on the FM broadcast band. The mercury wetted relay handles this quite easily. The SS transmitter runs in IBOC (HD) + FM mode, so the amplifier is running class A/B. There was no noticeable chirp or spurs when keying. Pretty funny seeing an FM rig do 7 KW of CW."
Art Leberman, KGO Engineer

The 2003 CHRS Charles Herrold Award "for outstanding achievement in the preservation and documentation of early radio" for was presented to Trudy Maxwell
Trudy