[GreenKeys] Anyone need a loaner 28-TD (100-wpm to rs232)?

[gil smith]

Hi Lester:

I have a standalone 28TD I could loan to you for a while.  It is small; 
maybe 20 pounds.  It was a tempest unit with low-voltage contacts, so could 
not be used on a standard high-volt loop.

I modified it to send rs232 directly.  It just has two pigtail 
connectors:  one for an ac power cord and one DB9F for connection to a PC 
via a straight cable.  The TD rums at 100-wpm, so tape reads are a bit 
faster than you would get on a model 14 at 60-wpm.

http://www.baudot.net/tty/pics/M28-TD-Gil-Front-Left-400w.jpg

The TD will simply connect to your PC, and you will run Bill Bytheway's 
RTTYArt program to archive tapes to disk files.  Then send a copy of the 
files to Bill or George, for uploading to the tape collection on rtty.com.

I'll pay shipping to you, if you pay shipping back.

Even better idea:  if other folks wish to borrow it for a bit, we could 
send it on a circular route.  Anyone else with tapes to read, but no 
operational reader?

gil


At 01:17 PM 2/14/2005, you wrote:
>I am off on a one week trip. On return I will see what is best way to do
>the computer capture.  Safest way may be a standalone mod 28 TD. Not
>sure I want to trust these to the 14 TD, and getting the 28ASR or the
>32ASR out and running may be more effort than I wan at this point in
>time. But an 28TD would be easy to make look enough like rs-232 to get
>into the windoz machine. I assume software to do that is around.  Or
>just generate AFSK directly and record that.    Lets see what looks
>good.
>
>Any standalone 28TDs available on loan in the Frederick-Bethesda Rt 270
>corridor?
>
>Lester Veenstra
>Senior Engineering Program Manager
>Intelsat General
>6550 Rock Springs Drive, Suite 450
>Bethesda Maryland, 20817
>+1-301-571-1212
>e-mail: lester.veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com




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