[GreenKeys] Older stuff than TTY's still running

[vibroplex at mindspring.com]

Hi Everyone,

I am active on the Morse Telegraph Club's dial up network for the past 15 years.  If anyone is interested in landline American Morse, you would be welcome to join us.  All you need is a dialtone, a small converter circuit and a Bell 103 modem.  We pound brass the old fashioned way!  Until this year we had a 106 year old former Wabash operator who regularly checked in.

We have kicked around the idea of putting the selector magnets of a TTY on our circuit to see if we could make it go....upcoming project for the winter months.  If anyone on the list would be interested in working with me on this over the winter, I'd be interested in talking with them.  Unfortunately, I have no free time for the next couple of months.

73,

Derek
WB0TUA

-----Original Message-----
>From: Larry Tighe <larryradio at worldnet.att.net>
>Sent: Aug 19, 2008 8:33 AM
>To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [GreenKeys] Older stuff than TTY's  still running
>
>A friend e-mailed me this link to the Morse people club.
>
>I guess the Bell 103 is still very popular and running strong.  There's a 
>circuit description that shows the sounder being run from the 103.  I wonder 
>if that would key a TTY magnet too....I don't know the current in a Morse 
>sounder.
>
>http://www.faradic.net/~gsraven/dialup/telegraph_time_machine.html
>
>
>Larry
>K2JIA
>www.antiquetelephone.com 
>
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