[Elecraft] Vibroplex

[Fred Jensen]

My crew mates at the coastal marine station all had shiny Vibroplex bugs 
they carried around in velvet lined wood boxes.  They were all lightning 
fast on the dot side, and various "methods" were used to slow them down. 
  See

http://www.radiomarine.org/gallery/show?keyword=kphhistory&panel=pab1_1#pab1_1

scroll down to Les Burger on the right for an example.  My beat up J-36 
by Lionel [$5 at Surplus Sams] that I carried in my backpack would 
easily slow to 10 WPM, the leaf spring was about half as thick as a 
Vibroplex.  Putting more weight on the armature will slow a Vibroplex, 
but it's also additional weight you have to slap around, and can lead to 
an "interesting" fist.

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73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org

On 12/14/2012 10:37 AM, Bill Hammond wrote:
> Vibroplex makes several different weights for these bugs.  However, I
> always just used the large solder wrapped on top of the original
> weight. The new weights are on this page:
> http://vibroplex.com/accessories.html 73, Bill AK5X