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My little piece of Cold War history arrived today in the form of an NOS telegraph key built for the Soviet military in the 1980′s. For only $18, I had to have one.

Shipping was quick (got here in 12 days) and the key seems as solid and well-built as I was hoping it would be.

For a better description and far better pics than I could ever take, have a gander at Yury’s eBay store.

This’ll be the first straight key I’ve owned/used in three decades so  I guess the folks on the next Straight Key Sprint from NAQCC will be suffering my poor sending come August 11. I’ll try to brush up a bit before then…

Now if I can only figure out how to read these instructions!

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2 Responses to “Soviet-era key received from Ukraine”

1. Wolf says:

   July 28, 2010 at 5:11 pm

   Hi John,

   what a coincidence.
   I was just visiting Your website, and on the other monitor I saw a video from WG0AT climbing Mt. Herman showing Your QSL-card

   73 de Wolf, DC9FO
2. John Harper AE5X says:

   July 28, 2010 at 5:24 pm

   Cool – I’ll have to check his site out