[Elecraft] Old Keyers (was: FT 8)

[kevinr]

The first electronics books I studied came from my dad's WWII foot 
locker.  He was a radioman on B17s, did a stint as a Marine Corps DI, 
then went to radar school in Ogden, Utah.  After that he went back to 
the Pacific Theater and was a radar/radioman for the rest of the war in 
B24s.  Each page of the radar manuals was marked with SECRET.  I thought 
it was kind of cool to be working with secrets even if they were 15 
years old at the time.  The stack of ARC-5s was useful for my studies.  
But since they were in such pristine condition I never could bring 
myself to cut a wire or do any soldering in them.  They were works of art.

     73,

         Kevin.  KD5ONS


On 03/06/2018 01:02 PM, Dave Sublette wrote:
> When I was a teenager, 61 years ago, I saw a U.S. Navy manual with a photo
> of a Mon-Key.  It was a WWII era manual.  At the top and botomof the pare
> was printed "Confidential".  Evidently the keyer was important enough to
> warrant being classified hardware.
>
> I had a teen buddy who had one and we used it to work SS in 1958.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave, K4TO
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guenther <charles9415 at att.net> wrote:
>
>> I used a HA-1 keyer during the early 1960's.  However, it was not the
>> first successful commercial electronic keyer!
>>
>> It was my third keyer.  My first keyer was the "Mon Key," which did not
>> have self-completing code elements, and my second was a Eldico, which was
>> self-completing.  Both these earlier keyers had built in paddles.
>>
>> 73,  Chuck  NI0C
>>
>>
>> On 3/03/2018, Kent Trimble wrote:
>>
>> I did a Show-N-Tell with our club’s CW class last Saturday using my
>> 46-year old Hallicrafters T.O. Keyer so they could operate the first
>> successful commercial electronic keyer, and to underscore how viable
>> vintage tube gear still can be."
>>
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