[R-390] Antique Bug

[Al Parker]

Hi Ray,
    I could put them up on a webpage for you, just email the pix to me.
    There's a lot of info on old keys out there on teh web, lots of 
collectors with bebsites & pix.  Do a google search on Vibroplex, Bunnell, 
MacElroy, etc., i"m sure many will show up.  I went thru that a yr or so 
ago.
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
www.boatanchors.org
www.hammarlund.info

"there is nothing -absolutely nothing- half as much worth doing as simply 
messing about in boats."
   Ratty, to Mole


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rjcote" <rjcote at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Tim Shoppa" <tshoppa at wmata.com>; "R-390 Mailman" 
<R-390 at Mailman.qth.net>; "K2CBY Miles B. Anderson" <k2cby at optonline.net>
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Antique Bug


>I have a couple different keys, but no label or tags.  Have no idea what
> type- brand-model they are.
> I took a couple pictrures of each from diff angles but have no way to post
> them yet.  Anyone here have an idea how I can show them to the group and 
> get
> an ID?
> Perhaps someone with a server can receive them from me via e-mail and then
> post them temporarily.
>
> They came from an SK ham, and his kids got tired of them sitting around 
> his
> old shack and gave them to me.
> Also I noticed some equipment there that I offered to haul them away. but
> that is a different post.
>
> Ray in Hawaii
>
> K2CBY writes:
> Lionel made a bunch of things under military contract during WWII, 
> including
> plugs and jacks, as well as straight keys and bugs.
>
> You mention J-37. If I recall, J-37 was a straight key -- not a bug --  
> with
> a leg iron.
> ---------------------------------------------------------->
>> There are a lot of different models of J-37. The J-38 was the "training
>> key" and
>> the J-37 in all its variants (J-44, J-47 and others I've seen but don't
>> know the
>> number) was the "field key". I learned on a J-38, in fact I still have 
>> the
>> one
>> my elmer gave me when I was 9 years old and still use it on SKN, but
>> I never used the J-37 much.
>>
>> The military generically called the Vibroplex (even those made by other
>> suppliers with Vibroplex tooling) a J-36.
>>
>> Why does the bug get a lower number than the straight keys? Dunno... :-).
>>
>> Tim.
>
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