[CW] Vibroplex J-36s

[Rich Dailey, N8UX.]

I'm searching even as I type...

Rich, N8UX.


At 05:26 PM 01/17/06, you wrote:

>Dear Fellow List Members...
>
>It seems to me that I recall reading somewhere--perhaps within the 
>pages of the FB publication, "The Vail Correspondent"--the number of 
>J-36 units (either actual or estimated) produced by the several 
>manufacturers...IIRC, Lionel was far and away the most prolific 
>producer with Vibroplex and another one or two far behind...I'm 
>sorry, I cannot get to my Vail Correspondent copies at the moment.
>
>Bruce
>WC5CW
>
>
>>From: mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
>>To: cw at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: Re: [CW] Vibroplex J-36s
>>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:56:58 -0600
>>
>>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:23:30PM -0500, Rich Dailey, N8UX. wrote:
>> > At 02:48 PM 01/17/06, wa4jqs wrote:
>> > >yep mine is  12-31-1944 serial number 285
>> > >73 Tony wa4jqs
>> > >
>> > >At 10:14 PM 1/16/2006 -0500, Rich Dailey, N8UX. wrote:
>> > >>Yup.  Mine is serial # 159, date of 11-17-1939.  Tony will 
>> have to chime in
>> >
>> > Both our keys are the small type plates.
>> > I'm cross-posting this to the morsecode reflector, btw.
>> >
>> > So am I correct to assume that from 11-39 to 1-45
>> > Vibroplex produced only 126 J-36s? That doesn't seem like much
>> > production for military use during WW2. According to Bill
>> > Holly's book, the reason Lionel was supposedly given the designs
>> > to produce a J-36 was because military demand for the Vibroplex
>> > exploded just prior to WW2.
>> >
>> > I think I've seen more Lionels (or more correctly, J-36 type keys
>> > without nameplates on them) than the Vibroplex.  I've never
>> > yet seen a large type nameplate Vibroplex, except for in the
>> > books.
>>
>>I guess I need to go look at the plate on my Vibroplex J-36, which
>>I _think_ dates from sometime before 1946. I don't remember the S/N
>>at all. More later, probably tonight.
>>
>>--
>>Mike Andrews, W5EGO
>>mikea at mikea.ath.cx
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