[Elecraft] Vibroplex - seen on ABC Pan Am (OT)

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

With full respect Ken, it is NOT "mangled" code. A bug sends human Morse
code as opposed to machine-generated code that is about as friendly as
computer-generated voices. 

Mike, the military still required radiotelegraph operators on some of their
aircraft and the commercial airlines used CW for trans-Pacific flights. 

I worked for Lockheed and held a commercial radiotelegraph license for just
that purpose. 

I enjoy watching the "Pan Am" TV show because that was how flying was back
in the 50's and 60's. I did a lot of it then. Wow, have times changed! 

BTW, I still hold a current commercial radiotelegraph license, but I doubt
if I'll need it again, Hi! 

73, 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

Never been a big fan of bugs and the mangled code most people send with 
them.  ...

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS


On 29/10/2011 12:09 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Noted last episode a Vibroplex or similar was used
>> to send a telegram or cablegram
>>
>> http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/pan-am/jet-setter/104a-cablegram
> I wonder if, by the early 1960s, there were **any** commercial
> aircraft radiotelegrapher positions still used on US airlines.  The
> Element 7 Aircraft Radiotelegraph Endorsement to the First or Second
> Class Radiotelegraph License was still available from the FCC even in
> the mid-1980s.  But that was likely more than 25 years after all such
> positions had ceased to exist.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>