VIBROPLEX BUG (SEMI-AUTOMATIC) CW KEY

Vibroplex semi-automatic Morse code key (bug) Blue Racer model circa 1966; "On-the-air" demonstration of bug and Ten-Tec T1340 40 meter QRP transceiver kit. NG9D, Plainfield, IL QSO with Gene/N8ER, Parsons, WV. Dec. 31,2009. Thanks for QSO Gene! ... and special thanks to Ken/N9VV for selling me his old bug!!
NB-In 2009, The Vibroplex Company was purchased by Scott Robbins, W4PA and relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee according to http://vibroplex.com/about_us.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Vibroplex
• bug
• Blue
• Racer
• Amateur
• Radio
• Ham
• Morse
• Code
• QRP
• kit
• Ten-Tec
• T1300
• T1380
• CW
• Company
• Knoxville
• Tennessee.

[g0vqw]

Lynn,

Nice keying on the blue racer bug.I get a lot of pleasure from my Vibroplex.Mine is a chrome deluxe model from 1994!

Vy 73 de Sandy

[WX5G]

Got news for you. Some of us old CW operators are using CW abbreviations when text messaging. Some of my friends ask me where I got TNX-thanks, ABT-about, WX-weather, and others I use from time to time...............Use to own a Vibroplex orignial gold presentation back in the early 70's. Never should have sold it.

[Dragonion2010]

Wow, these abbreviations/codes are even more cryptic than those used by teenagers on their cellphones :P