[CW] Keying a radio with a short-circuited J-38?

[Joe V31JP]

Interestingly, some WW II instructional films made the same error with a 
J-38,
the circuit closer switch closed. At a couple of our training set ups, 
they put
paper over the bars so it could not be accidentally be closed.

On 11/4/2013 11:57 AM, Stan Barr wrote:
> On 11/04/2013 17:46, Raymond Lee wrote:
>> >Actress playing French SOE of WWII in a 2008 French movie “Les Femmes de
>> >l'Ombre” had shorted the terminals of an American J-38 telegraph key in
>> >the course keying a wireless set; how could that be as it was not a
>> >landline closed-circuit system? Click to see the picture:
>> >
>> >http://www.flickr.com/photos/47864282@N02/10674298684/
>> >
> Nice one!
>
> On this subject, the film "Now It Can Be Told", about WW2 SOE
> operations has Jacqueline Nearne MBE and Caption Harry Ree DSO
> playing the agents, and as real SOE people they don't make
> elementary mistakes like that!

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