{"id":51,"date":"2010-07-14T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/14\/cw-keys-and-paddles\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:13:52","slug":"cw-keys-and-paddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/14\/cw-keys-and-paddles\/","title":{"rendered":"CW Keys and paddles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of my \u00a0keys:<\/p>\n

Russian or Slowak Key, brand new in paper, bought (September 25, 2010) on the Meppel Radio market for 5\u20ac. I\u2019ve used it once in a Straight key party, and it was doing fine.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/figure>\n

The key below is a Japanese semi automatic Key made by Dentsu-Seiki model no.BK100.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/figure>\n

I got this Dentsu Seiki Key from my colleguae Guus Henkens, who worked with this key aboard the merchant vessel \u201cOcean Express\u201d in 1973 with the callsign: H3OA.<\/p>\n

In return, Guus is receiving all the stamps from direct my QSL cards, as collecting stamps is his hobby.<\/p>\n

These Semi-auto bug keys were imported from the Japanese manufacturers. \u00a0Made more likely by Hi-Mound, formerly Swallow\/ Dentsuseiki or Jelectro who so far have produced a series of these bugs. This one is a dentsu seiki BK-100. They are to be seen with a gray colored tag, black tag and maybe even a white one. They were sold, and resold under various names (Monarch, Skillman, etc.) from several sources including Lafayette Radio Shack and Allied Radio in the 1960\u2019s. There is no manufacturer\u2019s identification on them anywhere. \u00a0They\u2019re just marked \u201cJAPAN\u201d on the bottom. The bottom \u00a0is grey metal. I have my bug complete with cover with the Dentsu seiki and Swallows brand-mark. More info:http:\/\/www.radioblvd.com\/telegraph_keys.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my beauty, the Vibroplex Original Gold, lefthanded model snr: 110008. Photograph by friend & Photographer Jan Paasman, Epe.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/figure>\n

This key is now on the back of my 2010 to 2014 QSL-card. I\u2019ve used this key several times in \u201csemi automatic key evening\u201d or \u201cSchlackertastenabend\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of my \u00a0keys: Russian or Slowak Key, brand new in paper, bought (September 25, 2010) on the Meppel Radio market for 5\u20ac. I\u2019ve used it once in a Straight key party, and it was doing fine. The key below is a Japanese semi automatic Key made by Dentsu-Seiki model no.BK100. I got this Dentsu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}