[GreenKeys] Interesting item on eBay web site item#3011688479: AEA FAX/RTTY Decoder and Software

[Gregory W. Moore]

I agree, a CRT doesn't hack it at all for copying RTTY One has to HEAR 
the typing and CR/LF. It doesn't even work for proper copying of fax, 
which, to be done correctly, needs the sound of the wire stylus 
scratching and sparking  on the sensitive paper, and the great odor of 
 ozone and the sensitized paper being turned into a proper wx map. The 
rythymic "bip" of the sync pulse as the drum completes each revolution 
is a necessary part of copying REAL fax wx (LOL). If one can sit in a 
radio shack and hear oneself think, then it isn't a real radio shack!!!!!!
An absolute MINIMUM of 4 R390's or 1051's, (MANY more is preferable) all 
with the speakers turned up to catch calls is necessary. Of course, 
since there isn't any 500KHz activity these days, one misses the calls 
in the background,  along with the other cw freqs, the clacking of a 
"mill" as someone (maybe you) was copying press bcsts,  and some voice 
(not really perfectly tuned, with that hint of Donald Duck, which was 
just "normal activity" in a Navy radio shack. Anything less is Q U I E T 
and  a crime against "the natural order of things" --hi--
73 de Greg WA3IVX /  NNN0BVN PA
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wa2hwj@worldnet.att.net wrote:

>I use this gadget to copy the FAX weather maps on the Canadian CFH station (on the hour). It also does a pretty good job of copying RTTY (although we all agree that copying RTTY on a TV tube is unnatural!).
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>Jack WA2HWJ
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