The N7CFO Keyletter Last Updated November 19, 2007 The N7CFO Keyletter is a publication dedicated to the lore of telegraphy and the collection of telegraph instruments. The Keyletter started in 1992 when I received inquiries from two other collectors about keys and decided to save some time by sending a combined reply. Within a few months I found myself publishing a newsletter. This newsletter covers any items of interest about telegraphy that I have been able to dig up over the years. There is limited information available about telegraphy collecting, and the Keyletter is written to document the research of collectors who submit their findings for publication. Information will often develop about a particular key over several issues, so it is necessary to have the full set to be able to use the Keyletters as a research tool. Information is printed in random order as it comes in, so I provide a cumulative index so readers can readily locate information. The Keyletter is not a polished publication. It is seldom regular - - I send it out when I have enough material to make up an issue. For the past couple of years I have received no material, so things have kind of ground to a halt! In early 2003 I changed the Keyletter from a paper publication to an electronic one. I now issue it via email in Adobe Acrobat® Portable Document Format (PDF) at no charge to subscribers, though I do accept and encourage donations to help offset my expenses. My most recent expense was a copy of Adobe Acrobat software - it was not cheap! To date I have sent out 39 Keyletters for a total of 484 pages. Issues 1 through 35 are available in hard copy, and issues 36 through 39 are in PDF only. If you are interested in subscribing I suggest that you purchase the back issues - they are a valuable reference. If you purchase them I will email #36 - #39 to you as attachments. The later issues on this CD were electronically "printed" to PDF and are pretty good. The earlier issues were scanned, and are legible, but the graphics are not all that great, and they do not print clearly, though they are legible. This is largely because the originals were paste-ups of copies, so the scans are not as sharp.
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