[GreenKeys] ANFGQ-3?

[Nick England]

Oh yeah, there was also the Instructograph machine that read tape with
short holes for dots and long holes for dashes. These were pretty common
for code training.
http://www.n4mw.com/instructograph.pdf

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> There were two very similar military code practice machines. One that the
> Army used would read paper tape with dots and dashes inked on it - like
> this tape
> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse/inker-tape-1409.JPG
>
> The Navy had one that read Wheatstone punched tape like this -
> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse/tape-01.JPG    (QST)
>
> The Navy one (AN/UGH-1) had two small "peckers" to read the holes in the
> tape -
> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse/training/ugh1-1807-05.JPG
> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse/training/ugh1-1807-08.JPG
>
> There were other Wheatstone tape readers that also had "peckers" for
> reading the tape - this video shows a Teletype Wheatstone tape punch and a
> McElroy tape reader in action
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-KDUpvMZfA
>
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:39 PM skip at osbornville.com <skip at osbornville.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When I was learning Morse code for my ham radio exam back in 1956 my
>> friend used a code machine that used paper tape.  It looked like a military
>> unit that was in an open frame and had 2 levers at the read head that were
>> an inch or so long and he had to occasionally poke them or make adjustments
>> to them to keep it running.  I have never seen anything close to this
>> machine until this discussion.  Pictures of the Wheatstone units don’t seem
>> to have this double lever reader head.  I wonder if anyone out there knows
>> anything about it.  Just curious.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Skip  K2RJF
>>
>> > On Feb 3, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > This is a "Wheatstone tape perforator":
>> >
>> >
>> > McKay made one like this, also.
>> >
>> > If a US Morse tape perforator has a keyboard, then it's a "Kline", made
>> by Kleinschmidt Electric ( later, by Morkrum,  M-K & Teletype Corp.)
>> >
>> > I suppose a more generic term is "Morse perforator.
>> >
>> > Duncan
>> > K2OEQ
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2/3/2020 21:34, Nick England wrote:
>> >> Wheatstone tape perforator.
>> >> Info, photos, etc at
>> >> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse.htm
>> >> Look about half way down the page.
>> >>
>> >> Nick
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 8:07 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net
>> <mailto:jhhaynes at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>    I see there's one of these on ebay, item # 164051888209
>> >>
>> >>    Not anything I want, but does anybody know what this is?
>> >>
>> >
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