[CW] Signal Sematic Key

[Richard Knoppow]

    I later found it on Archive.org and posted the URL. Someone 
has found a web source and posted that.
    You may still want to add it to the archive. Signal Electric 
was an important manufacturer of telegraph equipment and one of 
the longest surviving.
    I posted the brochure mostly because of the catalog entry for 
this key but its interesting for itself: it is a short 
instruction book on learning the code. At the beginning the code 
is shown in a peculiar looking table. It is an illustration of 
the code "plate" (don't know the right term) which is on some 
practice sets. One runs a stylus across the embossed code and 
produces the letters. I think this same arrangement was used on 
some "toy" telegraph sets and maybe on one sold to the Boyscouts. 
It does have the advantage of producing the code as sound 
directly rather than sending it to yourself via a key and 
_reading_ it.
     Keep in mind that telegraph operators could make a good 
living and it was considered a desirable job for a long time, so 
there was ample inspiration to learn the code.

On 8/4/2021 10:48 AM, Mike Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 09:39:34PM -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>>      Its too large for the list unless the moderator makes an
>> exception. Your personal address is via the ARRL mirror and I
>> suspect its too large for that too.
>>      I could try another address or see if its possible to reduce
>> the size.
> You can send it to me; I will put it on my website and post the URL.
>

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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL