[AMRadio] W2JAV RTTY TU for use with my model 15 TTY

[Peter Wittenberg SR]

Hi John, my god the W2JAV call sign brings back memories.  I seem to recall that his name was Byron Kretsman who lived in my area in Huntington NY.  Do I remember correctly??

-73- Peter K2LRC
www.k2lrc.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:amradio-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Dilks, K2TQN
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:44 PM
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
Subject: [AMRadio] W2JAV RTTY TU for use with my model 15 TTY

At 12:19 PM 3/3/2011, Ted Gustafson wrote:
>If that is the case you will need to go find a Model 19, build yourself 
>a real TU with tubes in it (no solid state filtering as that would be 
>evil new-tech stuff)

No, not exactly Ted.

I first built a W2JAV tube TU for use with my model 15 TTY.  Not long after I got a PC board and some used RCA transistors and built the W2JAV Solid State TU, which worked very good.  It used 88mh toroids found in some old telephone line equipment.

After I was called to active duty (who wasn't back then?) I was stationed at the Langley AFB MARS station.  There was a great junk yard nearby that I used to frequent and find electronic scrap for 5-cents a pound. (great Saturday fun).  One day there they had about
6 of the telephone line-loading pots lying in the pile.  Each contained 450 88mh toroids in sets of 5, but no one else that Saturday knew that.  I bought all 6 pots and took them home and cut the top off each pot and extracted the toroids.  I sold them @ 5 for
$1 (or maybe $1.25?) post paid and really made some money.  Good for the 60's.  Stamps cost 13-cents each (or $.25?) to mail them as I recall.  they jut fit into a bank money envelope which I picked up at the base bank.  I sold them with a classified ad in the RTTY Journal from Royal Oak, MI.  (Great publication, I still have a few of them around, RTTY Journals, not toroids. Hoarding is good if you are a ham.)

I used them on 2m AM and on HF with my BC-610-I (I wish I still had the radios, but not the model 15 though.)  I ended up with a quiet model 28 ASR before I quit RTTY.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN 

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