[GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)

[David Freeman]

Gil,

Thanks for the offer. If I gain possession of the RTTY Art tapes
I'll be in touch.

Dave, WW8S


On Mon 4/24/2006  3:01 PM, gil smith <gil at baudot.net> wrote :

> Hi folks:
> 
> I have mentioned this before and had no takers.  If someone wants to save 
> tapes, I will ship you a loaner unit to make it easy (just ship it back 
> when you are done).  One catch:  you must make the pic files public, by 
> sending them to Bill Bytheway for inclusion in the pic library at 
> rtty.com.  Reasonable enough eh?
> 
> I have a little 28-TD which I modified to plug directly into a 232 
> port.  You just plug it in to your pc, and then read tapes into a program 
> like RTTYArt to save and name the file.  I suppose Heavymetal would work as 
> well.  The TD is geared for 100-wpm, so the read will (reasonably) 
> fast.  You PC must have a serial port compatible with the above 
> program(s).  The TD does not take much desk space, and there are just power 
> and 232 cables hanging out.
> 
> If someone is willing to read a library of tapes (like the set from John 
> Sheetz), send me your address, and I'll ship this guy off to you.  Such a deal.
> 
> gil
> 
> 
> At 06:07 AM 4/24/2006, David Freeman wrote:
> >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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