[GreenKeys] Morse Punch?

[Nick England]

A Kleinschmidt/Teletype/Wheatstone keyboard perforator is not all that rare
and worth maybe $40-50.
Photos and a manual that explains how it works is at
https://www.navy-radio.com/morse.htm#perf

Didn't we cover this last week?

Nick England K4NYW
Chapel Hill NC
www.navy-radio.com


On Mon, Oct 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, October 5, 2026 11:53 am, Tom Hunter via GreenKeys wrote:
> > I ran across this on eBay:
> >
> ebay.com/itm/168394877233?_skw=teletype&itmmeta=01M46PBW1BK1MQ28ZKW1QJ814M
> > &hash=item27351de931:g:AYkAAeSw~7lqEK8h&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW
> > 4ZNSs2u11xBD4Wy6cTDbrIEZnNz81hLe9GF6wICaw2kaQq7RQAZ2Q5hk3s4iH9yTxRdzc%2Bu
> > Lx42XFpybh%2BqWkLIq3RECVl3vklHCagtEoxZeUesCuwWoz%2BAr8VeAEBrkikpiYyhwNZb%
> > 2BTkj%2B8Zmeq1UmZKMDMIaFg9qtV1qL%2FWLCLT%2BWvoGmd
> >
>
> That's pretty neat! It looks pretty clean. There is a nice explanation of
> the coding used on this machine at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_system .
>
> I have an Instructograph which has a single row of punched holes (dits) or
> oblongs (dahs) and several tapes. But the Wheatstone system is pretty
> neat!
>
> It must be quite a mechanism to go from a QWERTY keyboard to Morse
> punching. I'm impressed!
>
> Harold
> https
>
>
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