[GreenKeys] Announcing Auto-Pix

[David Freeman]

John,

Can you send me Bob's contact info and I'll see if we can get going on this.
It's pretty easy to set up your AFSK output from the TU into MMTTY and log
the data to your hard drive. An editor quickly cleans up any errors and burn
it to a CD. It just takes hours and hours and hours of machine time. I think
I can get four or five going at once.

Cutting tapes is even easier, heck I've let my M14 run all night and found
everything still humming along the next morning.

While storage/exchange on CD is certainly easier. The purist in me says
paper tape should be archived as well. Once this project is done, I'm a little
saddend by the thought that 1,500 RTTY PIX will be so easily obtained. Where
is the challenge in that. And once we all have a copy, there won't be much
reason to exchange them on the air. Of course we can create new PIX
but that is so damn easy now it's not funny. That era has ended....

Dave, WW8S


On Sun 4/23/2006  6:02 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote :

> At 09:12 AM 4/20/2006, David Freeman wrote:
> >I volunteered to receive/store/archive tapes, and even redistribute them in exchange
> >for blank tape. The last large collection I know about was John Sheetz estate's extensive collection. I think Bob Camp took possesion of it. I don't know what's become of Bob
> >since he was once very active posting to several reflectors but now is unheard from.
> >I'd still like to get a copy of the Sheetz collection since it was one of the most complete and accurate assemblies of RTTY pix around.
> 
> Ah, a volunteer.  I sent a message to Bob Camp.  He recently changed jobs
> and became very busy.  He admirably rescued the Sheetz tapes, but now
> he's willing to hand off the archiving to someone else.
> 
> Duping paper tapes?  Because I'm more computer-oriented than ham-oriented, 
> I regard the more important task as converting the old tapes to 
> computer-readable data files so they can be archived, cloned and shared.
> 
> As I understand it, we're talking about fourteen cubic feet of tapes.
> 
> - John
> 
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