[CW] Fwd: SUPER-BUG by UA3AO

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

You can see the method of making dashes better in this video his made of
one of the original keys as was used by the best Soviet telegraphers during
World War II and after.  He sends entirely in English (did you understand
the other was in Russian, or that UA3AO was sending poor English with too
many errors?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6z7-d1fiI

This second key was made by Soviet Russian machinists for the elite group
of best high speed telegraphists.

Even the best users of bugs run into a speed barrier where they cannot make
faster dashes, this results in what I call "Flight Radio Officer" or "South
American" sending as it was very popular there, I can hear the difference
between that and Erie Canal or Great Lakes swing (Click here for TWO
recordings of W0BMU, Howard "Tex" Harvey
https://archive.org/details/W0bmuHowardtexHarveyW0bmu ) sending which is at
a slow speed and is just a "Morse Dialect" where the dashes are always
longer and just not at high speed.  The best operators can send beautiful
code up to about 35 wpm but any faster most of them send 35 wpm dashes and
40 or 50 or &c. wpm dashes - the dashes are too long or way too  long.
 Also what happens in Flight Radio Officer sending is since the dashes
don't match anyway, the operator sends them at 25 wpm so now you have 40
wpm dots and 25 wpm dashes.  They knew what this was because at night and
the land stations did it also especially at night for "operator to
operator" information that wasn't a Telegram.  For telegrams everyone
settled down and sent about 27 wpm with well shaped code.

Don't miss the W0BMU recording.  Tex lied about the age requirement to get
a job as radio officer on a Lake Erie Barge memory tells me it was about
1923 (Tex died around 2005 or so), he still had the Blue based Vibroplex
Blue Racer he used in the early 20s. which had the call signs of the
various barges he used - all four letter call signs, I seem to remember
they were inverted from the "W calls East of the East Bank of the
Mississippi River, K calls to the West of the Mississipppi River rule of
broadcast stations which also shared the four letter call sign group:  KAAA
to KZZZ and WAAA to WZZZ.  There were some errors in broadcasting like KDKA
in the East and WOAI in the West.  I never proved this that K was from the
East Coast and W was from the West Coast when it came to ships.

Don't miss Lery's demo to me.  I did not see what was so special about his
key, I never even saw his fingers hit the paddle on the right, but with the
slow numbers in the video above I could see it, and now when I watch for
it, I see it in the newly made key he just had made for him.

The W0BMU or the other recordings at http://www.tinyurl.com/djringjr/ are
well worth listening to.

73

DR

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Kate Hutton via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> That is weird!  Pretty cool, though.
>
> 73 Kate K6HTN
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:39 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via CW <
> cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>> Our friend and SSN member Valery/UA3AO treated me to this video and
>> picture of his new Super-BUG.
>>
>> Valery is called "Mr. Bug" in Russia and he is a master not only of the
>> semi-automatic key but the sideswiper and it's cousin, the Super-BUG which
>> is part bug and part sideswiper.
>>
>> Enjoy de David/N1EA
>>
>> ====
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>>                           How are you and how getting on?  I read all
>> your posts with great interest indeed. I think you'll like  a new Super-BUG
>>  of my designe   Книга 534 - YouTube <http://youtu.be/vqE2C9TnyYc>
>>
>> 73  Valery/UA3AO
>>
>> Valery Pakhomov.
>>
>
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