Glad you enjoyed that, Paul. My first station was a Viking Ranger and a
Hammarlund HQ-170. I used a straight key until about 1983-4, when I
worked on the code in earnest and passed my Extra. After that I got an
MFJ electronic keyer with Bencher paddle, which I still have. I love
the old tube radios, but eventually I gave them up when I realized that
I wanted to operate more than I wanted to fight drift and hunt down ever
harder-to-find parts.
Scott: No, I didn't tell them. I only noticed the mike plugged into the
headphone jack while there, and I had other things to think about. I
only noticed the mislabeling on the pictures later. Since I knew what
the receivers were, I didn't look at the museum labels when I was there,
just the controls. :-)
--Peter
> On 8/4/14 18:38 : , Peter Klein wrote:
> > 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>
>
> Sweet.
> 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>
>
> Yep. A lot of those old military rigs look very similar. All ugly and
utilitarian.
> 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.
>
> My first station was a Heathkit DX-100b and a Knight R-something
receiver, homebrewed T/R relay. I never got the hang of a mechanical
bug, but built an electronic keyer. Original paddle was two straight
keys back-to-back vertically on a base. Upgraded to a Brown Brothers
BTL-A paddle, which I still have.
>
> --
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