[Boatanchors] Crystal Needed

[Bill Cromwell]

On 01/31/2014 03:15 PM, Bry Carling wrote:
> Bill and Richard,
>
> I would like to have a British straight key just for nostalgia sake. That was my first one.
> Missing one brass screw of course like most of them!
>
> I even brought it to America with me and used to use it to dial numbers on the phone when I
> only had a hand set in the basement - back in the days before you were allowed to own your
> own phone in the USA (circa 1968) - fun days for a young ham with a bit of ingenuity to figure
> out how the Telco did their "interrupting" to dial numbers!
>
> Bry, AF4K
>
>
Heh,

It's funny you should mention that. I did the same thing with my 
earphones on the telephone line. But I just tapped it out with the bare 
wires. I don't suppose that works everywhere these days. Now where did I 
put that tone encoder...

73,

Bill  KU8H