[CW] Positioning of any side to side key device and speed/fatigue during sending

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thanks for the pix.  Well, I found out about this eventually 
but didn't know when I first started paying attention to ads for 
bugs in my early teens. I think it was one of those things that 
everyone was assumed to know so was never explained.
     I have to look to be sure but think there were similar wedge 
connectors used on some telegraph patch panels before bugs were 
invented. They are really a clever way to attach a bug since they 
do not require anything to be done to the straight key and are 
instant connect and disconnect.

On 8/19/2020 1:18 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Here's a photo of a bug lip with a wedge in it. Some keys have 
> a small forward facing rectangular slot on the base of the key. 
> U.S. Navy had that type. If a radioman had a speed key 
> certificate which authorized him to use a semiautomatic key, he 
> would plug his wedge into that slot. Only operators who had 
> speed key certificates were authorized to use bugs.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
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Richard Knoppow
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