[GreenKeys] More on KSM Commercial RTTY Station

[tony j. podrasky]

Hey Guys;

Just thought I'd pass along a little more info.

73,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Radiomarine] KSM Granted RTTY Frequencies
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 07:18:14 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: Richard Dillman <ddillman at igc.org>
Reply-To: Richard Dillman <ddillman at igc.org>
To: hunybuny at eskimo.com


>Hi Richard et al;
>
>C C C!
>
>We're hoping that your baudot transmissions will be at
>45.45 baud, or 60 WPM - so that all our ancient Teletype
>machines will be able to print you!
>
>You have no idea (well, then again - maybe you do, seein'
>as you know how much we *LOVE* the work you've done with
>getting cw traffic active again) how the RTTY'ers look
>forward to being able to print *real* RTTY traffic again!
>
>73, and 88's to Ms. Stoops!
>
>W6ESE - tony
>NNNNZCZC
>
>I ZOG!

Yes, we plan for the Baudot transmissions to be at 60WPM for that very reason. 
As I said earlier, we look forward to our transmissions being copied by real men 
with real Teletype machines.

All we've got at the station are electro-mechanical Teletype machines including 
a very nice and fully operational 28ASR at the receive station, this rescued on 
its way to the dump.  We copied George's on the air transmissions from his 
experimental station and his Internet transmissions just to have the music of 
the 28 pounding out copy at the station.  We're also planning to establish a 
land line TTY order wire between the transmit and receive stations, which was 
standard procedure in the past.  So so you can see that we're TTY fans ourselves.

As I mentioned in the announcement, we can't say yet when we will be able to be 
on the air.  We'll address that issue at our next weekend meeting.  The first 
transmitter on the air will be one of the ex-KPH Henry 5kW SITOR transmitters. 
Over the long term, we might put one of the classic RCA transmitters from the 
1950s on RTTY.  But this would be a big job as they use large tube type 
frequency shift keyers in the racks in the control room.

In any case, being on RTTY was one of our goals from the beginning.  Now that we 
have the authorization to do so we look forward to our first transmissions.

I wonder if you could forward this message to the Greenkeys list so the members 
can read it?

Best Regards,

RD

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Richard Dillman, W6AWO
Maritime Radio Historical Society
http://www.radiomarine.org
Collector of Harleys, Willys and
Radios over 100lbs.
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Tony J. Podrasky | God sat down for a moment when the dog was finished
                  | in order to watch it and to know that it was good,
                  | that nothing was lacking, that it could not have
                  | been made better.          - Rainer Marie Rilke