Such a beautiful straight-key! I bet there are plenty in the ham radio community who would appreciate a piece like that.
Is it your grandfather's name engraved in the bottom left?
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Such a beautiful straight-key! I bet there are plenty in the ham radio community who would appreciate a piece like that.
Is it your grandfather's name engraved in the bottom left?
It is yeah. His other key has his call sign on it.
I have lots of memories of sitting on his lap in his radio room while he talked to people on the other side of the world before the internet was really a thing.
So your grandfather was part of the ol' "analogue" internet, huh? That's cool!
Pre which war?
I meant WW2 but I see the term I was searching for was "Interwar"
Looks more like 19th century than 20th century technology to me.
That is cool. I learned visual Morse code while in the navy, but audio Morse is another thing altogether.
Tangential: I’m thinking of getting a ham radio license.