[CW] Military Bugs

[Kate Hutton]

Remember the old scifi/horror movie "Them"?  Of course the radio op is
using a bug ...

73 Kate K6HTN

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 7:54 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>     Thank you. This explains the 1936 date I sometimes see. The
> J-36 keys have various contract numbers, I think a separate one
> for each manufacturer but all dated 1942. The are Signal Corps.
> contracts. It would be interesting to know what is in the contract.
>
> On 10/3/2020 6:22 PM, Thomas Chirhart wrote:
> > MacElroy made bugs under contract for the US Navy in 1936/37 and the
> base was cast with “property of us navy“ on the left side of the base...
> > 73 Tom K4NCG
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Oct 3, 2020, at 8:05 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>     I hope on topic here. Does any one know if the specs or contracts
> for the J-36 exist? Also, is the J-36 the first bug made specifically for
> the military?  There were about five different versions of the J-36, all
> different. I don't think any were exact copies of the Vibroplex Original.
> Since there has been a lot of discussion of these keys on the SKCC list
> and since there are some collectors here I wonder what I can learn.
> >>
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