[GreenKeys] What Is IT?

[Duncan M. Brown]

Sounds like a high-speed Morse keyer with those speeds (and weight),  but I
don't know that the Navy was using them late enough  to have a KY-xxx
descriptor.   How many rows of holes did the tape reader read?  If just two
rows, that would indicate Morse.

Check with the Maritime Radio Historical Society http://radiomarine.org/ 
they have high-speed Morse tape readers and may have pictures on their site.

have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ


> [Original Message]
> From: WB6BLV \(DM06\) <wb6blv at inreach.com>
> To: <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 05-Jun-10 15:31:23
> Subject: [GreenKeys] What Is IT?
>
> This thing followed me home from the swap meet this morning... kinda
heavy sucker, too...
>
> Various ID plates say:
>
> KY-469UG
> Keyer, Telegraph Transmitter
> Manufactured For Department of The Navy
> Great Northern Telegraph Works
>
> and
>
> G. N. T. Transmitter
> Model 2042
>
> and several other plates with Navy property number, etc...
>
> There are 2 nice switches in brown plastic domes on the front and visible
sets of contacts above them on the front of the unit... the motor in the
rear drives a horizontal shart that goes through a "Speed Regulator" with
adjustment range of 15 - 240 (yes) words per minute...  looks like it reads
tape of some kind..
>
> OK, what followed me home?  CW sender that reads prepared tape messages?
>
> John
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