[GreenKeys] More Transceiver stuff...

[Don Robert House]

At Illinois Bell we used a 130B SubSet made under contract with a  
local electronics firm.
Most people do not know it, but by the beginning of 1983 we were  
buying 78 percent of what we used from other than Western Electric.

Memories..
Don

On 26 Nov 2008, at 5:36 PM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote:

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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