[ARC5] Keys, mikes,and headsets question

[Henry Mei'l's]

Dave,
I read your mail to my numerous  keys (don't dare to say hand keys) -- and 
now they have all clamped up, locked tight  and refuse to be grasped, 
stroked, pressed or manipulated!

I guess I'll have to work SSB now.

Henry, Cph.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Keys, mikes,and headsets question


> We often see the J-38 described as though
> it was a key used in combat situations.
> In fact, the J-38 was almost exclusively
> used in Code training classes.  Each classroom
> would have dozens, one for each seat.
> That's why there are so many of them still
> around.  The J-36, J-37 and those keys
> specific to a field set, plus variations
> on the Navy -26003A were the rule by a mile.
> I've seen -26003A keys fitted for use
> with ship blinker lights; used to own one.
>
> Perhaps so many J-36s survived because of
> the strange but endearing tendancy of
> code radio operators to become attached
> to the bug they spent so many hours
> carressing. Hmmm.... Wonder what connection
> a psychologist could make out of that
> and men's other carressing activites?
> A bug can certainly be just as
> cranky and fickle.
> Naaaaaa....
> I don't want to think like that ;-).
>
> 73 Dave S.
>
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