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Old 28-03-23, 14:18
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I had no idea that Morse keys were made in Australia for the US Signal Corps ( Buzza products ). Clipsal in Adelaide were still manufacturing the brass Post Office pattern keys right into the 1980s, mainly for radio hams, I have one of their keys.

https://1stdirectory.co.uk/_assets/f...45a340f47f.pdf
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These are my two German keys, not sure which sets these keys are meant to match up with. Typical Bakelite construction. Can't recall where I got these from, long time ago.
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Hi mike,

The smaller, rounded of the two came from me back when I lived in Western Australia years ago.

It was included in a box of sundries purchased from the estate of Martin Keen who at one time had a military museum in the west.

I remember looking at it with contempt as a ‘civvy’ item until I noticed the wehrmacht marking with the German eagle embossed in it 😳

I recall you were restoring a German WWII TornE B radio set back then

Cheers mate
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Mike,
I think most Australians would be surprised at the variety and quantity of manufactured items supplied to US Forces in Australia (USFIA), mainly between 1942 to early 1944. I'll now add morse keys to the list, thanks!

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Hi mike,

The smaller, rounded of the two came from me back when I lived in Western Australia years ago.

It was included in a box of sundries purchased from the estate of Martin Keen who at one time had a military museum in the west.

I remember looking at it with contempt as a ‘civvy’ item until I noticed the wehrmacht marking with the German eagle embossed in it ��

I recall you were restoring a German WWII TornE B radio set back then

Cheers mate
Ah yes. I still have the Torn E but I am like everybody else who has one, it needs the power supply box.

A ham friend in the US , N6FEG, has mentioned that the Australian manufactured WW2 AWA AMR 100 receivers which appear to have been built for a US Signal Corps contract , are relatively common in the US. N6FEG owns one and a friend of his has one plus it has the original wartime transit box.

https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums...13034#p3613034

http://vk2rh.com/amr101/

"Apparently the AMR100 Receiver was manufactured by AWA in Sydney under licence from National. I’ve read elsewhere that the US Signal Corps in the South West Pacific were having difficulties obtaining HROs from the US and AWA offered to supply them in a form of a reverse lend-lease arrangement."
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