Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gene and Jerry: Boy does this exchange take me back a couple of hundred years. I almost flunked the test and hatged code too. Seth - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention > Gene > > My father taught me Morse using a straight key, but I don't > remember what was supplied when I took the Test. I never > used a bug with my transmitter. > > I hated code, and almost flunked the Boy Scout Morse Code > test when I was 13. > > Now you can use an ordinary keyboard, and it converts it to Morse, > Does it work both ways? > > Jerry > > grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > > Jerry the bug as we know it has been around for 100 years and there were > > other similar devices which are even older, but less successful. yes the > > straight key is older but also has many variances. > > > > Gene > > > > > > Jerry Lehrer > > <jerryleh@pacbell.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Sent by: cc: > > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: [Leica] OT - Dayton Hamvention > > -alto.ca.us > > > > > > 05/15/2003 09:14 PM > > Please respond to > > leica-users > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html