CW KEYBOARDS from the days of yore - QRQcw2024-03-29T00:51:45Zhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/forum/topics/cw-keyboards-from-the-days-of-yore?commentId=1993813%3AComment%3A21783&feed=yes&xn_auth=no Morse-A-Keyer CW keyboard
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<h1 class="title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer"><span> </span>Morse-A-Keyer CW keyboard</h1>
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<p>discussion about this keyboard on QRZ…</p>
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<p>discussion about this keyboard on QRZ</p>
<p><a href="http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/anyone-know-which-1970s-homebrew-cw-keyboard-this-might-be.451917/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1970s HOMEBREW KEYBOARD discussion</a></p>
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<p></p> A-TRONIX CW KEYBOARD
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>A-TRONIX CW KEYBOARD</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>info here:…</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>A-TRONIX CW KEYBOARD</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>info here:</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.n7cfo.com/Tgph/Dwnlds/atronix.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.n7cfo.com/Tgph/Dwnlds/atronix.pdf</a></strong></span></p> From: https://www.ky4z.com/?p…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2018-09-11:1993813:Comment:350382018-09-11T11:33:31.830ZChuck aa0hwhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/chase
<p>From: <a href="https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670…</a></p>
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<p>From: <a href="https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670</a></p>
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<p> FROM: <a href="https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670" target="_self">https://www.ky4z.com/?p=3670</a></p>
<p><span>"So here’s what I’ve found out so far about the AC-1. The keyboard uses a diode matrix for the keying (the diode board is part of the mount for the keyboard keys. Each key is basically a spring loaded single pole momentary switch. A second PC board is mounted on the bottom, connected to the diode matrix board with several hard-soldered wires. The second board has several TO-92 package transistors on it, and a variety of other discrete components. No integrated circuits.</span></p>
<p><strong>ADJUSTMENTS GALORE.</strong><span> </span>Now volume and tone adjustments are a given, and thankfully, the tone overall is pleasant and not screechy. Speed? How would you like to adjust the speed? You can independently adjust the speed of the dits, the speed of the dahs, as well as the spacing between characters.</p>
<p>The 3 position rotary switch on the top panel has off, on and hold; the hold position simulates a “key down” or “tune” position.</p>
<p>The connector isn’t a 1/4-inch phone or RCA jack, but a two-pin microphone jack. The unit has a built-in AC supply. I’m guessing mid-1960s perhaps?"</p>
<p></p> This is the Drake Tono Thet…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2018-09-11:1993813:Comment:348292018-09-11T11:12:46.294ZChuck aa0hwhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/chase
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<p><span>This is the Drake Tono Theta 7000e communications computer. It was polular in the 80's and still is hard to beat if RTTY is your pleasure. Tono was a Japanese quality manufacurer of digital communication equipment and was way ahead of its time. They made many products but this one was by far the most polular model with hams. The unit is…</span></p>
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<p><span>This is the Drake Tono Theta 7000e communications computer. It was polular in the 80's and still is hard to beat if RTTY is your pleasure. Tono was a Japanese quality manufacurer of digital communication equipment and was way ahead of its time. They made many products but this one was by far the most polular model with hams. The unit is built very well.</span></p> FROM: http://tenwatts.blogsp…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2018-09-11:1993813:Comment:349392018-09-11T11:04:03.027ZChuck aa0hwhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/chase
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<p><span>FROM: <a href="http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-glory-of-cw-keyboard.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-glory-of-cw-keyboard.html</a></span></p>
<p><span>They just don't make these anymore. A CW Keyboard was a device which could produce Morse code from a typewriter-like keyboard. Today we have …</span></p>
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<p><span>FROM: <a href="http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-glory-of-cw-keyboard.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-glory-of-cw-keyboard.html</a></span></p>
<p><span>They just don't make these anymore. A CW Keyboard was a device which could produce Morse code from a typewriter-like keyboard. Today we have </span><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi</a><span> and </span><a href="http://www.arduino.cc/">Arduino<span> </span></a><span>board kits that can convert the output from a PC or keyer or both. In short, these have long been obsolete... and are rapidly becoming arcane.</span><br/><br/><span>The Codetyper above is from the </span><a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/25400929-080">March 1952</a><span> issue of CW Amateur Radio Magazine. It was a very early CW keyboard, it actually predates the term. For the record, CW stands for "Continious Wave," a term that hearkens back to the very beginnings of radio. The Codetyper was designed by Nathaniel Dorfman and it was written up in CW, Radio and Television News, QST, Radio-Electronics. Even MARS the Army signal Corps Bulletin wrote it up. The Codetyper went for $500 which when corrected for inflation is over $4,000 in today's dollars.</span><br/><br/><span>The device broke down the 43 different sequences of dots and dashes into units of time. The dash for example is three units long, and the dot is one. Units were strung in sequence the longest unit of time is the number "0" which is made of 5 dashes in Morse code. Five dashes, at 3 units each is 15 units plus the 4 spaces between them makes 19 units. Everything by definition has to be a subset of that sequence. To accomplish this, the Codetyper had 40 tubes... yes it was tube driven. </span></p>
<p><span>But the Codetyper vanished into obscurity by 1953. Hams, even the industrious bunch, were making their own. Catalogs carried kits that subtracted labor costs from complete units like the Codetyper. By the 1960s solid state electronics were widely available and Hams attached pin switches to manual typewriters to bridge the gap. By the 1970s they had integrated circuits, memory and buffers to play with.<br/><br/>With cheaper components in the 70s complete units began appearing on the market again: the Info-Tech M-300, the Picking Keyboard, the HAL MKB-1 and the MFJ-494 Super Keyboard (pictured above.) The Heathkit HD-8999 came out in the early 1980s, and may have been the last one. MFJ actually still makes a CW Keyboard today: the MFJ-452, but the keyboard is external and connected by a PS/2 port. There are few if any models on the market today with an integrated keyboard.</span></p> THE HAL DKB-2010
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<p>THE HAL <span>DKB-2010</span></p>
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</span></p> Here's me, c. 1981, with an I…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2017-04-08:1993813:Comment:290632017-04-08T15:19:41.360ZAl Scanandoah, K2ZNhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/AlScanandoah
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<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3127150824?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="721" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3127150824?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="721" class="align-full"/></a>Here's me, c. 1981, with an Info Tech M10C (I think that's the model) that I bought from Dan, KU2D (WA2HIY) after he bought his M300C. 73 - Al, K2ZN, ex-WA2VEZ.</p> Here is a short video showing…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2015-03-24:1993813:Comment:221292015-03-24T14:35:46.964ZChuck aa0hwhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/chase
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Here is a short video showing a live demo of a home brewed cw keyboard</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Here is a short video showing a live demo of a home brewed cw keyboard</strong></p>
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</strong></p> Thank you, Chuck, Sandy and J…tag:qrqcwnet.ning.com,2015-01-13:1993813:Comment:217902015-01-13T14:08:39.651ZRich Langfordhttps://qrqcwnet.ning.com/profile/RichLangford
<p>Thank you, Chuck, Sandy and Joe for your interesting comments about spacing, it is a very different discipline to send Morse using a keyboard as opposed to a key or paddle but I love the fact that you can send cw for over an hour at speeds above 40 wpm without feeling tired. One thing that I have not seen on this site is any thing about using a wrist rest when using the keyboard. I first noticed on Chuck W5UXH's videos that he was using a rest and when I got one I could soon see why, it…</p>
<p>Thank you, Chuck, Sandy and Joe for your interesting comments about spacing, it is a very different discipline to send Morse using a keyboard as opposed to a key or paddle but I love the fact that you can send cw for over an hour at speeds above 40 wpm without feeling tired. One thing that I have not seen on this site is any thing about using a wrist rest when using the keyboard. I first noticed on Chuck W5UXH's videos that he was using a rest and when I got one I could soon see why, it puts your hands at the right height without any stress on the arms/wrists I recommend them. See you on ICw one of these days for a good natter Chuck, 73 Rich G4FAD.. </p>