[GreenKeys] Re: e-bay

[Peter Gottlieb]

Hi Larry.

I have one of those UGC-74Bs that I picked up at Dayton for almost 
nothing and after loading it in the plane I borrowed I was afraid I 
wouldn't even get off the ground.  Wow that thing is awfully heavy.  
Except for an old almost dried out ribbon it seems quite functional but 
it is not the same as a "real" Teletype to me.  That's why I want a full 
blown 28, now that's a real machine!  I picked up a 2-B on eBay and it 
was really gunked up with gummed up oil but the good thing was that this 
pretty much protected everything from rust.  I used automotive 
"electronics cleaner" which is tetrachloroethane and a soft brush and 
got it down to clean metal then oiled and greased the right spots so now 
it seems operational.  Next step is cleaning the keyboard part of it 
then I will know if I got it right!  Alas, that darned paper tape...

I too built a demod with those 88 mH coils and tubes but never got it 
running due to too much interference created by the polar relay.  By the 
time I had the time to shield and filter things I had to get rid of the 
old beastie 15 as my parents were moving (the mechanism was given to 
another RTTY guy who needed it, the case was cut up and scrapped).  Now 
I have several of those tempest Dovetrons which I suppose I could use 
until I get something old enough.

My feeling is that if you are going to do RTTY, do it with real 
machines.  If you want to work data and glass, might as well work ALE 
and FS-1052 with tcp/ip extensions.

Peter

PS, my wife just shakes her head.



Larry Tighe wrote:
> I was on 60 meteres last nite for a while.
>
> Talked to a guy outside of Detroit.  He was a commo man in the navy and knew the 15's and 28's.  He knew the greenkeys thing too.
>
> I was telling him about reading the manual on the UGC-74B and trying to make it print character by character instead of a line at a time.  I can xmit char to char no problem...it gives you a choice in the menu.
>
> Anyway, he sez he did WAS on rtty and he, like me, built his first TU with telco torroids and 12AU7's.  I guess we've all been thru that.
>
> I whinned to him that it seems like there's so few machines on the air and most all are "glass".  He sez, yes, he went glass too!!  He also mentioned that the Model 28's he worked on were running in 1961.  It was at that point I came to realize, I must be living in the distant past.  I'm shocked.
>
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