[CW] Speed Key = Bug Key?

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Home Brew, Honey Bun, oh, gosh, your dear wife must have so much fun with
your call letters, HB.

Hans, could you sit a circuit with a side swiper without a speed key
certificate?  Those VibroKeyers make nice side swipers.

73

DR

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Navy print shop which made up the card likely just grabbed a stock
> picture without a lot of research into the subtle niceties of various key
> models.
>
> No Navy transmitter of that era would have worked with the key depicted,
> nor with any iambic key, for that matter.
>
> 73,  de Hans, K0HB
> Master Chief Radioman, US Navy
>
>
> On Saturday, December 22, 2012, Raymond Lee wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, the term "speed key" is synonymous with mechanical
>> "bug" key.  However, a Vibro-keyer (a single lever non iambic paddle)
>> was depicted on a Speed Key Certificate (see attached picture) issuing
>> by the USN in 1963. Could some naval veterans give a few words on this
>> issue please?
>>
>> 73's de VR2UW
>>
>
>
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> *73, de Hans, K0HB*
> *"Just a boy and his radio"*
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