[GreenKeys] Economist on Telex

[Larry Tighe]

Question por favour,

Was/is Telex DC all the way from one machine to the other? AFSK maybe in 
between?  My RCA machines run at 66 WPM...Telex speed??

Was Telex always dial-up?  Who were the Telex owners...RCA, W.U., Bell 
System ??

I'm firing up my two Model 15 RCA machines now and running some tape into 
them from past W1AW transmissions....all this discussion has motivated me to 
turn them on and "listen" :>)

Lar
>
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:15
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Economist on Telex


> Quoting wa3frp at aol.com:
>
>> Thanks to Nick for pointing out the article on a subject very near and
>> dear to my heart as working in the Philadelphia Telex exchange was my
>> first real job when I got out of University.
>>
>> Here is a link to that article:
>>
> <http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10609367&subjectID=348963&fsrc=nwl>
>
> Interesting article!  I'm struck with the parallel between the final 
> quote: "Who
> will send the last TELEX? Possibly me." and the work of Dick Dillman and 
> the
> crew at the marine historical society and KPH. http://www.radiomarine.org/
>
> There are folks still
>
> - flying the legendary P-51 fighter,
> - Sending land telegraph around the country over telephone lines
> - running one-cylinder steam engines and put-put gas engines from long ago
> - and putting long-relied-upon coast radio stations back on the air.
>
> Maybe a form of TELEX will last a very long time also.
>
> Roy
> K1LKY