[GreenKeys] Re: RTTY Autostart in Northeastern Illinois

[Don Robert House]

Hi Gary,

I am 65 miles NW of Chicago and 75 miles SW of 
Milwaukee.  There was a HAM in McHenry just south 
of us about 6 miles.  He told me he had done 
autostart for years but had not turned on his 
model 28s for over 10 years.  That was in 1996.

In Gordon West's Technician book he writes that 
"no one on UHF or VHF wants to hear RTTY 
anymore."    (He also shows the AM radio band 
incorrectly narrow.)

Not sure what the local HAMs are doing around 
here but the radio club at the Milwaukee School 
of Engineering has given up their ST-6 to me for 
$25.00  I just have to go pick it up.  I 
volunteered to give a talk on Teletype and data 
communications but the instructor said there is 
not enough interest.

Sigh,

Don

P.S.  My son Will is going to graduate in June 
from Columbia College.  He is a Film major.  For 
Christmas he made me a great DVD of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company 1956 film "Telegram for 
America"  It is really interesting, giving most 
of the history of the company and methods of 
telegraph transmission and switching.... Both 
civilian and military.   The original digitized 
video was downloaded in the middle of the night 
from a source we got from Jim Haynes.

I can make copies of this DVD but would want 
folks to pay for the cost of the media and the 
mailing.

DRH
KC9HMJ


>Don,
>
>Are you in a high population part of Illinois? 
>Somewhere where there might be hams running RTTY 
>autostart on 146.70 FM?  When I lived in a 
>suburb of Minneapolis, I did a lot of that. 
>Nobody in Des Moines, IA however.
>
>73's
>Gary WAØNDN
>

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Don Robert House
P.O. Box 11
Ringwood, IL 60072-0011