[GreenKeys] More Transceiver stuff...

[wa2hwj at att.net]

Lenkurt made the FDM equipment used by AP (I have one of the
"subscriber subsets"). 


-------------- Original message from Don Robert House <Packard42 at gmail.com>: -------------- 


> Then there was Lenkurt who built a lot of telegraph carrier systems 
> for independent telcos and the HOLIDEX Reservation System. 
> 
> Don K9TTY 
> 
> 
> On 26 Nov 2008, at 5:23 PM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote: 
> 
> Telesignal made a lot of landline telegraph mux equipment. Those cards 
> were probably from a frequency division multiplex system. 
> I've got a rack full of Frederick Electronics FDM cards that do the same 
> thing. AP and UPI used to use these systems as well as the military. 
> 
> Jack K0TTY 
> 
> -------------- Original message from Randy or Sherry Guttery 
> > >: -------------- 
> 
> 
> > Since we're talking about old military RTTY stuff... 
> > 
> > When I was on Guam the last time (1973-1975) I picked up several 
> > transceiver units in one of the equipment lots I bought. The only 
> thing 
> > I remember was that they frames into which slid various modules. I 
> kept 
> > a logbook of the equipment that we bought and sold during those 
> times - 
> > and the entry is: Tone Transceivers, Telesignal, model numbers 101, 
> 102 
> > and 107-B. It's noted there were 19 units, total weight 50 pounds 
> (which 
> > means they cost us $10.00 - since it was .10 pound for pieces/parts 
> and 
> > .20 pound for complete units). The only other note was that since I 
> > hadn't found any use for them - they were scrapped in Aug. 1975 
> since we 
> > had to get rid of quite a bit of "stuff" so we weren't over our 
> weight 
> > limit coming back to conus. Anyone have any idea what these are/were? 
> > Could have been Navy or Air Force - since that disposal office 
> handled 
> > stuff from both. 
> > 
> > That also brings back another memory - They were starting to replace 
> > some of the oldest TMC gear - and a complete FRR-60 & FRT-40s 
> showed up 
> > a few weeks before I left. Of course at well over a ton - no way to 
> > bring them back. There had been parts of them through before (We 
> had a 
> > TIS-3 TTY to AFSK modulator for years)... but you couldn't help but 
> > smack your lips at the sight of one of those 40KW beasts and matching 
> > twin diversity receiver- Complete! 
> > 
> > 
> > best regards... 
> > -- 
> > randy guttery 
> > 
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