[Boatanchors] FW: Crystal Needed

D C _Mac_ Macdonald k2gkk at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 31 19:23:46 EST 2014


I remember the days when hams filled in the interruptor in places and used the dial to send H I in Morse code over the vehicle horn when they dialed ZERO!
  
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> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:17:37 -0500
> From: wrcromwell at gmail.com
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Crystal Needed
> 
> 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

             		 	   		  


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