Gene, I've read about the 109 over the years. Nice radio and highly collectible. I've messed around with paddles, never a "bug", the most difficult key to manage. I'm primarily a straight key man and my favorite key is the old U.S. Navy Flameproof. I've a small straight key collection including a Japanese key used in WWII and a couple of German war keys. The Japanese key was used in tanks and is surprisingly (at least to me) well-made. Gil
PS: There's an old story floating around that Johnny Cash while in the Air Force was a code listener assigned to monitor Soviet transmissions. He intercepted the first Soviet code transmission in CW announcing Stalin's death.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/08/0...-stalins-death/
