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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:14:06 -0700
References: <OFE2314CEA.2AB61E07-ON86256D26.005055B7-86256D26.00506D8A@rockwellcollins.com> <3EC43F92.9020307@cox.net>

Mike

That is a "modern" device!  My father taught me code, using
an old downward moving telegraph key, where the operator
controlled dots and dashes (dit dah) by how long he held the
key down, not right and left.

Jerry

Mike Durling wrote:

> Using a bug is like using a Leica.  Fine mechanical device in an
> electronic world.
>
> For all you non-hams, this is a 'bug':
> http://www.vibroplex.com/origstd.htm  You send morse code with it.  They
> have been  making them since 1890.
>
> Mike D, KD4KWB
>
> grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> > I haven't touched a bug in over 40 years either, I use a Vibroplex
> > Vibro-Keyer.
> >
> > Gene
>
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