[GreenKeys] Rtty monitors

[charles hunter]

I had one of those 64s in 1986 and the plug-in Morse and RTTY card. The card 
cost about $50 and could copy morse up to about 25wpm. RTTY decoding was 
restricted - no amtor, sitor, fec, etc. It was made by a guy in 
Gaithersburg, who shipped direct. It was simple to use: Plug into the tape 
or earphone jack of any reasonably stable receiver (I had a sony ICF6500) 
and tune in the signal with the fine tune  control.  First hits were AFP 
Paris, CFH Halifax, KAWN at SAC HQ and of course Havana's propaganda 
machine.great stuff and you could print too on the Commodore line printer. 
(remember those?? :) )

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Subject: [GreenKeys] Rtty monitors


> Back in about 82-83 i bought a COmmodore 64.  WOW!  I had computer friends 
> who had the whole shebang.  Dual disk drives and you name it.  I got along 
> with the 64, a 1702A monitor and cassette unit.  I still have the cassette 
> unit along with the 1702A monitor.  I use the monitor with a satellite 
> receiver for TV as the Color and resolution is great, better than some 
> TV's i've seen.  If you wanted something to use as a "dumb" terminal, i'd 
> look for one of them.  I see 5 of them on Ebay and they are cheap, if they 
> are working as they should.  Only problem i've had with mine is the slide 
> switch on the back is a bit intermittent at times,  That's for switching 
> the input from the back to the front RCA jack.  Otherwise, i love it. 
> Seems they had a cartridge that plugged in with a CW program and i think i 
> saw someplace or someone who had a rtty program for it.  Might have been 
> in one of the ham mag's or one of the software/hardware publications from 
> that era.
>
> Larry
> W0OGH
>
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