[GreenKeys] Well, it's not a Teletype ...

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Well, it's not a Teletype ...


> The McElroy sticker pretty well nails it as a high speed 
> Morse
> transmitter.  The round shape of the reading head is also 
> quite
> suggestive of that.  I think McElroy marketed some 
> products of
> Boehme and others through his company.  The Boehme keyer 
> has that
> circular shape of the reading head.
>
> Seems likely RFL simply won a contract to deliver some 
> high speed
> Morse equipment, and repackaged McElroy/Boehme machinery 
> in a box of
> their own design.

     I didn't see the sticker in the ebay photos, where is 
this photo?  It certainly nails it. I thought that I had 
seen the identical box in a McElroy advertisement but can't 
find it so it might have been elsewhere, perhaps a military 
manual. There is a picture of a mores keying head in one of 
the McElroy ads in an old ARRL handbook that is identical 
but on a different motor box.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com