Perhaps this particular

Vibroplex will turn up sometime, somewhere...maybe in your collection??

Champion standard Model, grey base. Black knobs, S/N 217601

It was my first bug, bought new sometime around 1958. It had my old callsign "K0JSP" written on the underside of the base.

In a moment of weakness. I sold it to the radio operator aboard VGXQ, Canmar Explorer 1

Off Nome, Alaska on 7/6/1976.

The ship's chopper landed near my station WKR at Nome to pick it up and take it out to the ship, anchored in the Nome Roadstead.

I worked with VGXQ on his way on west and north until.out of range. He was using my bug with it's quite familiar bell-clapper bang, glad to be at last free from the ships big awkward pumphandle key.

I never worked him again.

I would love to know where this bug ended up.

If you should come across it, I would reallyv like to hear from you.

73

Ed Trump. AL7N

Fairbanks, Alaska.