Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, Vibroplexes are great pieces of gear. Of course, like Leicas, people collect the different variants. I was always a user and had a lot of fun with my 1940's model back when I did a lot of hamming. You should have seen the look on my wife's face when I got a catalog from a place called Vibroplex! Mike D grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > Mike > > I was talking with the Vibroplex people at Dayton and was told next year is > the 100th anniversary of the Bug and they are still the original design > with some cosmetic changes only. Still a nice piece of CW gear. > > Gene > > > > Mike Durling > <durling@cox.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 08:32 PM > Please respond to > leica-users > > > > > > > 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