Vibroplex

VINTAGE VIBROPLEX ORIGINAL PRESENTATION DELUXE TELEGRAPH KEY BUG W/CASE VG COND – Buy – VINTAGE VIBROPLEX ORIGINAL PRESENTATION DELUXE TELEGRAPH KEY BUG W/CASE VG COND

The Begali Intrepid Bug – its pivot and weights are “backwards” as compared to the Vibroplex This is a novelty key – and a fun one at that. I am playing with it and the Begali CW Machine – another strange but interesting CW toy. More on the CW Machine in a future blog. Its […]

THE VIBROPLEX #3347 HORACE G MARTIN’S UNITED ELEC MFG CO NORCROSS GA KEY BUG – Buy – THE VIBROPLEX #3347 HORACE G MARTIN’S UNITED ELEC MFG CO NORCROSS GA KEY BUG

Well the shack is running, but I am still only on 20 M as I can only get a mono band dipole up. Well today that will end. I have made some good investments for later use as I have acquired some antennas that I will use when we finally get our house. This apartment […]

I found one of these locally – with a speaker and fully restored by Howard Mills – THE Collins Expert. This is a receiver I have had at the back of my mind for years. I also have the fondest or early memories of when I first started sending with my Vibroplex Bug in 1973 […]

We visited the Deschutes Historical Museum in Bend, Oregon today after a wonderful week here Very funny sign! The museum is an an old Elementary school called The Reid School, so the building is as historic as its contents. When I was a kid – I found an old Edison bulb out in a field […]

1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base – Buy – 1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base

Vibroplex Morse Code In Original Box With Key and Extra Paddles – Buy – Vibroplex Morse Code In Original Box With Key and Extra Paddles

1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base – Buy – 1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base

1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base – Buy – 1944 Vibroplex Classic Original Bug 833 Broadway St NY SN 132155 Black Cast Base

Years ago, I acquired an old receiver that was similar to the one I used when I was just twelve years old and very new to the radio hobby.  In 1968, my National NC-155 was paired with an E.F. Johnson Viking Ranger transmitter.  I’ve been restoring the NC-270 for some time, and was hoping to […]

made 14Jun2018 Samuel Morse was issued a patent for an “improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals by the application of electromagnetism” on 20Jun1840. A while back there was a minor hurricane that caused surge waves to slosh onto the shore and flooded parts of lower Manhattan. Power was out for a week […]

Sono alla perenne ricerca di un Set-up definitivo per quanto riguarda tasti per CW. Devo confessare che ho (ri)imparato il CW nel 2014 , pur essendo patentato dal ’93, e non so usare (o meglio non mi trovo per niente) il tasto Verticale. Per imparare ho speso il mio tempo con un simpatico paddle cinese […]

I met Moe in McCook, Nebraska in 1998.  An enthusiastic Ham, he was retired, having had worked as a radio operator for the railroad there his whole life.  And he was good at CW.  How good?  Really, really good.  Even when several of us would visit him in his shack, code was always playing in […]