> Cute. Some of those antique malls are fun (although the ones that show
> stuff from my childhood as "antiques" are really annoying...)
Paul: Yeah, tell me about it!!
> I found an ex-Western Union Vibroplex bug at one for cheap - that was
> exciting, since I love antique telegraph keys.
You love the Tillamook (Oregon) Air Museum, which I visited last week.
They had some WWII-era Hallicrafters radios in relatively good shape on
exhibit. Behind glass and with mixed light sources, but I did my best:
Super Skyrider receiver with a paper-tape based Morse keyer. There were
no straight keys or bugs on display.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290058.jpg.html>
Sky Buddy receiver mislabled as a transmitter and receiver, with a mic
plugged into the headphones jack. :-) Below are some single-band Navy
receivers and their "twin" transmitters. I actually used a transmitter
like this for a while, think it was called an ARC-5.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290059.jpg.html>
S-22 on left, Navy receiver mislabeled as a "rectifier power unit" on
right, a tester and a VLF receiver on the floor
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/tillamookair/P7290088.jpg.html>
I remember these "boat anchor" radios well. When I got my ham license
as a teenager in late 1968, many of us had them. WWII surplus stuff was
relatively cheap and worked well if you could calibrate your dial and
cope with the drift, not to mention be able to lift them on and off your
desk. You could always tell the guys who keyed with "bugs" by their
"Lake Erie swing"--long dashes followed by very fast dots, and sometimes
one or two too many. :-) The ones who were really good at it were
amazing in the same way that a virtuoso musician is amazing.
--Peter (aka KD7MW in another plane of existence...)
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