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

[Rob Atkinson]

according to my record he was W2JTP but he could have held more than
one call of course.

rob
k5uj

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Peter Wittenberg SR <k2lrc at k2lrc.com> wrote:
> 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
> God Bless America !
>
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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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