WARREN BERBIT - K2UUV - Is an active Amateur Radio Operator who has been collecting telegraph keys for well over 20 years. During that time he has acquired some exceptionally rare and unique keys such as the left-handed MacElroy bug shown in the following photographs. Warren has never sold a telegraph key but has actively enlarged his collection through purchases and trades. The following photographs show samples of his collection.

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THE WARREN BERBIT - K2UVV - TELEGRAPH KEY COLLECTION

• WARREN BERBIT examining a Swedish key(18KB)
• WARREN BERBIT (K2UVV) (left) and PETE MALVASI (W2PM) (right) discussing telegraph keys: (20KB)
• WARREN BERBIT'S QSL Card: (29KB)
• Several of WARREN BERBIT'S Display cases
  filled with telegraph keys: (42KB)
• More of WARREN BERBIT'S Display cases: (45KB)
• VERY EARLY KEY FROM INDIA: (17KB)
• THE FAMOUS MARCONI "ROADMAP" WIRELESS KEY: (14KB) Described in an Elmer Bucher book. (Thanks Neil McEwen (K5RW) for identifying it.)
• EARLY WIRELESS KEY: (24KB)
• EARLY SE-1443A WWI NAVY WIRELESS KEY: (20KB)
• CAPTURED WWII JAPANESE MILITARY KEY: (11KB)
• KEY BUILT-IN TO WWII RADIO SET: (10KB)
• UNUSUAL COVER FOR WWII J-37 Key: (11KB)
• AUSTRALIAN "CLIPSAL" KEY with original knob: (15KB)
• EARLY AND UNUSUAL "toy" PRACTICE SET: (17KB)
• GEM PRACTICE SET: (17KB)
• TWO "toy" KEYS THAT ACTIVATE "clickers": (17KB)
• VERY EARLY TILLOTSON SOUNDER: (23KB)
• UNUSUAL BUNNELL REPEATER: (26KB)
• UNUSUAL BUNNELL REPEATER: (15KB)
• UNUSUAL BUNNELL REPEATER: (17KB)
• UNUSUAL REPEATER (Note very early PHELPS SOUNDER in background): (20KB)
• VERY EARLY PHELPS SOUNDER (Mounted on board with a common Bunnell key): (17KB)
• EXCEPTIONALLY RARE LEFT - HANDED MacELROY BUG: (16KB)
• UNUSUAL UNKNOWN BUG: (21KB)
• TWO ELECTRO-BUGS: (16KB)
• MECOGRAPH MODEL 3 BUG: (11KB)
• BUK BUG (Made in Germany in 1960): (19KB)
• XOGRAPH WITH LABEL (Made by Rolf Brown in his basement in Toronto, Canada, in the 1920s): (23KB)
• UNUSUAL SIDESWIPER PADDLE WITH SINGLE MAGNET RETURN-TO-CENTER: (17KB)
• FIVE HUNDRED BUNNELL TRIUMPH KEY LEVERS (used for spare parts): (26KB)Interestingly, none of these levers carries the trademark or BUNNELL stamping. This shows that these marks were stamped on the levers AFTER they were shaped.

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