The Begali Intrepid is a wonderful bug, but it took me a very long time to set it up because if Vibroplex is a grandfather clock, then the Begali Intrepid is a wrist watch. Very responsive but totally unlike Alberto Frattini's J-36 or a Vibroplex or a McElroy or any other semiautomatic key ever made.

I almost gave up on it but I stopped for a while and came back to it and slowly went through the setup and got it sending excellent Morse.