[GreenKeys] Model 19 and RTTY TU in NW Iowa

[Ralph Mowery]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Mushel" <herbert3 at centurytel.net>
To: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>; <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 19 and RTTY TU in NW Iowa


> Yes, I looked at that one very carefully!   Afterall I am in SW WI so, you
> say,  why doesn't he just "run over" and pick it up?"  Well, simply 
> because
> you can't get any farther west and still be in Iowa!   It takes a    l  o 
> n
> g  t  i  m  e   to drive clear across Iowa and the gas alone would make a
> $200 bill look sick!  I did save a 28KSR a year and a half ago and that 
> was
> a "just across lake michigan" that took over 14 hours of driving to
> accomplish!   Isn't there someone is Omaha?  That isn't too far!   This
> situation is not easily correctable!   If you read literature from the
> League they don't even bother to mention teletype machines in the same
> breath as RTTY.   I would be hard pressed to find any technician class
> amateur that I know who would even know about the word "Teletype."
>
> 73
>
> Lee   K9WRU


It probably would be hard to find a tech class that knew a teletype machine. 
I was a tech that had a model 19 (still have it) and built a st-6 from a 
schematic in Ham Radio.  There was a group of about 15 or 20 that had a 
repeater on the 220 mhz band just for rtty.  That was about 20 -25 years 
ago.   I did copy a bunch of the pix off 20 meters at that time.

I did upgrade to extra a while back and finally got on the low bands, but 
have not used it to transmitt with.

Wish some of the mechanical stuff would show up within  a couple of hours 
drive from the middle of North Carolina.