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VE3WBZ > CWKEY 21.03.08 19:00l 73 Lines 2407 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: RE:VK6BE's Key Experience TNX
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DT:Friday,March 21st.,2008 @1121hrs EST
<< Quoting VK6BE to CWKEY@WW >>
>From : VK6BE To : CWKEY @WW
>Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 21-Mar 05:37
>Bid : B92184VK6BE Message # : 232569
>Title : RE:KB2VXA ..the Brass Pounder
>
Hi Bob ... I see at the bottom you quoted me....but
posted for Warren to read...but ok with me no problem.
Also to others hello on the subject of CWKEYS which I
guess came out of the topic ..babbled into the dirt
MORSE or CODE @WW...
> The "straight" key I use is an ex army job which came
>from one of the army sets, probably a 101 or 109 about
>1940 vintage, by Amalgamated Wireless Australia.
Since Bob, that is well before my time, I will have to
look at it on the net or perhaps when I am at the Legion
someone there might help too...never know.
>I used one or other of the same keys for most of the time
>I was in the Army in WW2. I went to the biggest of the
>radio stores in Perth in 1943 and asked to buy a "bug" but
>the answer was that the Yanks in town had bought them all!!
I have heard that before. Holidays bring the invasion
of the USA'ers here to CANADA and feamarkets and things
like that were snapped up long ago and are in the USA.
>I later got hold of a bug made by a Perth firm (Skinner?)in
>the 1930s but some years ago I found that it happened to be
>a museum piece and so I gave ti to a friend who had a
>valuable collection of old keys of all kinds.
I don't know if you saw my key. Someone in the USA offered
me some real loot for it, as I even have the wooden box
it is held in. That was a valuable present to your
friend, but then getting to know you, and also what
people you know have told me about you, I could see you
doing that ... What a gesture.
I think thats what I will do with my key ....
>The HF and 6 metre rig has an electronic keyer and so I use
>an automatic key with that rig, side swiper, I heard some
>Yanks call them.
>Cheers,
>Bob VK6BE.
>
>[End of Message #232569 from VK6BE]
The only electronic keyer I had the use of was the Heathkit
side pad type... But then it was the lastest craze I saw
from that company.
"Thank you" bob ... for that look into the past to connect
to the present. I for one appreciated it.
Happy Easter ...
Peter
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