Hi Chuck & Chris,
Interesting paddle info. My key has a red sticker
which says:
BROWN BROS. MACH. CO.
MODEL BTL-A
St. LOUIS, MO.
It has red paddles and a black krakle (sp.) base.
I would call it near mint condx.
At present I am thinking of getting a single paddle
Kent.
Larry, W3UIO
> From: Larry Gibbs <amishbuggy37@yahoo.com>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Keyer paddle opinion needed (NO
> TEN-TEC)
>
> I have a Brown Bros. keyer paddle and a Bencher
> straight key. The Brown Bros. won't stay put.
>
> Brown Brothers made model UTL without a base for the
> do-it-yourselfer to be
> included in a keyer. Palomar used it in some ""IC
> Keyer" models introduced
> 1969. If it has the red stick on label "Brown Bros"
> on the frame and is
> clean, that paddle is not easy to find, and a
> collector might really want
> it. I collect paddles, and for me the the UTL was
> the hardest Brown Bros
> paddle to find. Good article on Brown Bros in The
> Vail Correspondent by T
> French W1IMQ January 1993. I have a fairly good
> collection of Ten Tec
> paddles, including their first model, I think 1969,
> with white finger
> peices. That is really hard to find, so if any of
> you have one with white
> finger pieces, don't let it slip thru your fingers.
> White finger paddles
> were on models KR40, KR20 and KR1. I got a nice
> note from Jack K4JU dated
> 11-16-95 including a copy of Ten-Tec's first? paddle
> ad dated July 1970, hr
> magazine. Apparently the white ones broke, so they
> went to black. Ten Tec
> was founded in 1968, so paddles were some of their
> first products. I think
> there is a greater variety of paddles than bugs,
> maybe because there were
> fewer patents.
> Chuck Grey ND7K - nd7k@amsat.org
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