The first electronics books I studied came from my dad's WWII foot
locker. He was a radioman on B17s, did a stint as a Marine Corps DI,
then went to radar school in Ogden, Utah. After that he went back to
the Pacific Theater and was a radar/radioman for the rest of the war in
B24s. Each page of the radar manuals was marked with SECRET. I thought
it was kind of cool to be working with secrets even if they were 15
years old at the time. The stack of ARC-5s was useful for my studies.
But since they were in such pristine condition I never could bring
myself to cut a wire or do any soldering in them. They were works of art.
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
On 03/06/2018 01:02 PM, Dave Sublette wrote:
When I was a teenager, 61 years ago, I saw a U.S. Navy manual with a photo
of a Mon-Key. It was a WWII era manual. At the top and botomof the pare
was printed "Confidential". Evidently the keyer was important enough to
warrant being classified hardware.
I had a teen buddy who had one and we used it to work SS in 1958.
73,
Dave, K4TO
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guenther <charles9...@att.net> wrote:
I used a HA-1 keyer during the early 1960's. However, it was not the
first successful commercial electronic keyer!
It was my third keyer. My first keyer was the "Mon Key," which did not
have self-completing code elements, and my second was a Eldico, which was
self-completing. Both these earlier keyers had built in paddles.
73, Chuck NI0C
On 3/03/2018, Kent Trimble wrote:
I did a Show-N-Tell with our club’s CW class last Saturday using my
46-year old Hallicrafters T.O. Keyer so they could operate the first
successful commercial electronic keyer, and to underscore how viable
vintage tube gear still can be."
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