[GreenKeys] Paper tape handling

Mon Apr 24 20:39:30 EDT 2006

There is a center unwinder and a winder that are used with the TD.   
There are several sizes and some that convert to wind different width  
tapes.  You can make a center unwinder with a little effort but the  
winder is more difficult.  They are available on eBay from time to time.

Don

On 24 Apr 2006, at 4:03 PM, gil smith wrote:

Hi Eugene:

That's a darned good question.  I have always just let the tape spew  
on the floor (which I think is kinda cool), and then wound it back  
up.  But I don't read tapes much.

In a "production" situation, it gets messier, so I'll let the  
greenkeys folks comment on this.

thanks,

gil

At 01:08 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote:

> Gil, I might be willing. Although I have a question about tape  
> management.  I just got my first 28 asr and hence my first machine  
> that handled tape. As I play around with it punching and reading  
> tape it occurs to me, tapes are hard to manage. What I mean is, is  
> there some kind of source spool /take up spool that can be arranged  
> to avoid the giant pool of tape sprawled all out on the floor?  Is  
> there a better way to manage long tapes?
>
> Eugene
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gil smith [mailto:gil at baudot.net]
> >Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 02:59 PM
> >To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> >Cc: 'John Foust', 'David Freeman'
> >Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)
> >
> >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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