[QCWA] Fastest CW Opr Ever???

[Joseph Fenn]

Yeah thats the one.... I should have known as I had one of his
bugs long time back before went to the blue racer.  As I recall
the Mac bug looked like an old fashioned hot iron like grandma
use to iron clothes with.  It was all chromed etc.
Wow 72 wpm is worth a million or 2 I guess.   Tnx for info
guys.  I'll be 86 next month so I am lucky if I can find my
way home after a shopping trip.   Driving no problem however as
always stay off the freeways and travel the same streets all
the time.  My copilot keeps me aware if I start to turn on the
wrong street, or am going over the speed limit.   She also
flags down cars when I am trying to back up my Maxima and cant
really see whats coming down the road.
                      Joe/KH6JF
P.S. I used the homebrew sideswiper just as often as the bugs.
      A WW1 Navy vet made it for me when was a sophomore in hi-school.
He used an old transformer shell for the base and put about a
6" piece of a hacksaw blade mounted at its end and could swing
pretty fast back and forth.  He also made the contacts out of brass
for best contacts.  Naturally it sounded like a lake erie fist
as the length of dots verses dashes was not measureable!!
Bakelite paddles were on the other end of the blade.  Good fun!!!



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* Ham since 1937 HiSchool Sophomore ex W9ZUU, KP4EX, W4FAG, KH6ARG KH6JF *
* WW2 Vet since Sep 1940 to just After VJ day. US Signal Corps AACS      *
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