[GreenKeys] Using the R390/A for RTTY ...

[John Hensley]

Regards the Navy's use, don't forget the dependable URA-6 which was true 
baudot demodulation.  The URA-8 was the Navy's entry into tone conversion 
(an electric modem) which is not the same thing.

Seems to me if you are going to all the trouble to employ an R-390 for 
reception, why not get it right and balance the act with a period 
demodulator, either Army, Navy or Maritime.  The M28 series is correct so go 
first class and employ the 28ASR.

If you keep telling yourself you have space problems, just get a blasted 
cell phone, donate the electric radios to someone else and spend your time 
watching football and playing the lotto ... you might win you know :-) ...


>
>AN/URA-8A or AN/URA-8B.  Barely in the zone would be early production of
>AN/URA-17.  And as an aside, the correct terminology is "Converter" or 
>"Receiving
>Converter".  "TU" was the draft dodging civilian term.
>
>In a message dated 10/14/2006 7:40:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
>jack.rubin at ameritech.net writes:
> > I've just acquired a nice R-390A (Stewart-Warner manufacture, 1960
> > vintage) receiver that I'd like to use with an M28 for RTTY reception.
> > What would be an appropriate TU interface for this setup? Is anybody
> > else using an R-390A and if so, how do you have it set up?
> >
>
>Robert & Susan Downs - Houston