[CW] Amplidan Keys / M.P. Pedersen Keys

[David J. J. Ring, Jr.]

Here's my modified Amplidan, I loved the Massey key that I sent with at 
Bob Merriam (W1NTE)'s museum in Rhode Island - New England Radio and 
Steam Museum, that the next best thing was to create a ball so I could 
flap my arms like a duck, like I did with the Massey key.  Bob Merriam 
said he's never heard anyone send on that key that fast, and I'm a 
sender who struggles to send 20 WPM in my senior years, and when I was 
30 I found it difficult to send at a 25 WPM speed on a hand key - thank 
God for Vibroplex.  Here's that magic day I fell in love with the 
beautiful Massie wireless key, I grabbed it like a pump handle and then 
finally I grabbed it like using the wings of a bird, and I flapped it 
and it went very fast.

Photos - my modified Amplidan with the big ball "cupped hand piece".  
The big ball itself.
Photo of a SAILOR Denmark Radio installation - notice that Denmark, 
Sweden and Norway used BLUE instead of green for the silence periods for 
2182 kHz MAYDAY distress - Russia was the other non-standard nation they 
used "pink" - the rest of the world used green.

N1EA at the station controls of Wireless Station PJ at New England Steam 
and Wireless Museum https://newsm.org/buildings/massie/

73
DR

I put this ball in the cup on my hand.

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Danish_Sailor_ RadioStation.jpghttps://newsm.org/buildings/massie/

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