[CW] Russian Cootie Bug

[В.Пахомов]

Dear David , 
Thank You so very much for your translation of  the most interesting part of my book . I should like to present You  my book of the second edition remaked and supplemented.   Please, send me your post-address to my eMail    qro73 at mail.ru.
Valery- UA3AO
  
>Вторник, 13 октября 2020, 5:21 +03:00 от "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>:
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>Enclosed is a document written by Lery, UA3AO a former Soviet Merchant Marine Radio Officer and historian of Soviet and Russian radiotelegraphy equipment .
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>A quote from the beginning of the document is included here as a brief summary of what is in the document.
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>Photographs of three existing examples of this Cootie-bug which was used from even before WWII by elite Soviet radiotelegraphers.
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>The benefits are obvious.  You can see this key in operation here :
>https://youtu.be/9g6z7-d1fiI
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>A preview of the beginning of the document is pasted below.
>  73
> 
>DR N1EA
> 
>The Semi-automatic key with two dash levers, The Cootie Bug WITH "COOTIE DASHER"
> 
>If semi-automatic Cootie Bug and even automatic keys, are studied in all their myriad constructed options, from 1904 to the present day, then the Cootie Bug with “cootie dasher”, that is with two dash levers, which when alternately pressing the index finger to the left, then to the right, producing a nearly uniform sequence of dashes, is practically unknown to the world.
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>Such a Cootie Bug actually exists and it was made in the beginning of the World War II (or as it is called in Russia, the “Great Patriotic War” (i.e. World War 2)  in the solely for use on communication lines of the special services which had the most skilled radiotelegraphists on the circuits.
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>Advantages of semi-automatic with two levers are obvious - it exhibits a noticeable improvement of the timing of the dash. 
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>At medium operating speeds of 130-160 characters per minute transmission (26 to 32 wpm) on the Cootie Bug with two levers is  indistinguishable by ear from a transmission using the electronic keyer, indicating a high quality of transmission in the absence of "Handwriting", or peculiarities in the sending,  which could identify a certain operator.  This "Handwriting" is called an operator's "fist" in English.
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Валерий Пахомов
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