RA1AOM morse paddles

One of my old QSL-cards showed a beautiful paddle, which is handmade by Valery, RA1AOM, from St.Petersburg/Russia. He designes and builds paddles, straight keys and other stuff as a hobby. The first one is mounted on a solid metal block, but Val also uses marble or other stone-materials. The QSL of UA3AO shows some more of his high-precision works, followed by his MAESTRO-paddle which is built on jaspis-stone and uses magnets to move the paddle back. On the other pictures you see the proud constructor, his new QSL-card and a number of different paddles on a block of "obsidian" (a volcanic silica glass) as well as a new straight-key by Valery. If you need more information, contact him by email ( RA1AOM@mail.ru ) or just send him a letter: Valery Pavlov, P.O.Box 98, Sankt-Petersburg, 197022, Russia. I added numbers to the pictures to make sure that you order the right one !

Auf meiner früheren QSL-Karte war eine wunderschöne Morsetaste (Paddle) zu sehen, die von Valery, RA1AOM, aus St.Petersburg/Russland in Handarbeit hergestellt wird. Er entwirft und baut Morsetasten aller Art als Hobby. Dieses Paddle hat einen schweren, lackierten Metallblock als Basis, Valery benutzt aber auch gerne Marmor und andere polierte Mineralsteine. Die QSL-Karte von UA3AO zeigt einige andere Produktionen aus seiner Hand. Die nächsten Bilder sind seine neueste Entwicklung: Das MAESTRO-paddle mit magnetischer Mechanik auf Jaspis-Halbedelstein. Weitere Bilder zeigen den stolzen Konstrukteur, seine QSL-Karte, ein neues Handtastenmodell und ähnliche Tasten auf "Obsidian", einem vulkanischen Gesteinsglas. Für Nachfragen erreichen Sie Valery per Email (RA1AOM@mail.ru ) oder per Brief: Valery Pavlov, P.O.Box 98, Sankt-Petersburg, 197022, Russland. Ich habe die Bilder mit Nummern versehen, damit Sie nicht die falsche Taste bestellen....

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German-Russian paddle-Friendship at DL9CM

 

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Valery's actual QSL-card

 

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This beauty can be heard at RA9XE soon !

 

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RA1AOM keys are active from down-under as well !

 

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Paddle with magnetic return !

 

 

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same as #17

 

 

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Valerys Straight-Keys

 

 

See Valery's testing-method to find out,if the cable is fixed properly to the key :

 

Here is a 25-year-old picture of Valery as a young radio-operator for the russian army in East Germany (GDR):

 

Valery in his shack:

 

Val does the stone-drilling with a special diamant-drill and watercooling:

 

Would you like a QSL-card with a picture of one of these beautiful keys above? Look here:

http://www.quadrat.ru/qsl/spgm/spgm.php?g=Keys%20And%20Paddles