Re: [time-nuts] A little telegraph history, slightly off topic

2016-06-23 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Mitch: Thanks for the post. I'd like to see you video on adjusting a bug. -- Have Fun, Brooke Clarke, N6GCE http://www.PRC68.com http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html The lesser of evils is still evil. Original Message A little history about telegraphy and i

Re: [time-nuts] A little telegraph history, slightly off topic

2016-06-23 Thread Bob Albert via time-nuts
Mitch, nice story!  I can certainly vouch for its ring of truth, as I experience the same thing on CW.  I can often identify a station by the style, speed, sound, or other characteristics.  I can tell a bug from a straight key from a keyer a lot of the time.  And we won't talk about frequency dr

Re: [time-nuts] A little telegraph history, slightly off topic

2016-06-22 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
More off topic: I saw on the history channel a story about a British radio installation in France (IIRC) that was taken over by the Germans, who proceeded to masquerade as British operators, hoping to gather intelligence. The British became suspicious and someone got the bright to append "HH" to

[time-nuts] A little telegraph history, slightly off topic

2016-06-22 Thread F Mitchell
A little history about telegraphy and identifying operators and transmitters. As the former owner of Vibroplex (1994-2009) I spoke with thousands of hams and hundreds of former railroad and WU telegraphers at hamfests over the years, many at the Dayton, OH hamfest. Also, one of my friends was