[CW] Military Bugs

Chris R. NW6V chrisrut7 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 09:39:26 EDT 2020 

Loved "THEM" when I was a kid. Later - in the 80s, one of the first guys
killed by the monsters -the actor - was my landlord in Southern CA. But
don't remember the "bugs" of a different sort. I'll have to find a copy -
and yes, ImDB is a good bet.  :-)

73 Chris NW6V



On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:20 PM Kate Hutton <katehutton at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would say it's not worth paying money for.  Just liked that they stuck
> the bug in there instead of a generic straight key.
>
> 73 Kate K6HTN
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:16 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>>     Its there but is for sale or rent. Giant ants eat everything.
>> I have enough with regular ants.
>>
>> 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.
>> >     >>
>> >     >> --
>> >     >> Richard Knoppow
>> >     >> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
>> >     >> WB6KBL
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