[CW] Military Bugs

[Richard Knoppow]

    I'll bet its on You Tube. Anyway will look. Is this a bug 
that ate the world movie?

On 10/3/2020 8:06 PM, Kate Hutton wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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