[CW] Russian Cootie Bug

Tue Oct 13 04:12:35 EDT 2020

Lery,

My address is OK on http://qrz.com/db/n1ea

73

DR

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 02:09 В.Пахомов via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> 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
> >:
>
> Enclosed is a document written by Lery, UA3AO a former Soviet Merchant
> Marine Radio Officer and historian of Soviet and Russian radiotelegraphy
> equipment .
>
> A quote from the beginning of the document is included here as a brief
> summary of what is in the document.
>
> Photographs of three existing examples of this Cootie-bug which was used
> from even before WWII by elite Soviet radiotelegraphers.
>
> The benefits are obvious.  You can see this key in operation here :
> https://youtu.be/9g6z7-d1fiI
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Advantages of semi-automatic with two levers are obvious - it exhibits a
> noticeable improvement of the timing of the dash.
>
>
>
> 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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