[GreenKeys] Re: Larry's gears...

[Don Robert House]

Good information Jack,
Thanks,
Don


On 16 Sep 2008, at 8:01 PM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote:

Eugene and Jim are obviously correct...I mistakenly recalled the Model  
401 shown in the
Wayne Green TAB RTTY Handbook..looks similar. Either way, I went nuts  
trying to figure out the
speed until I noticed one of my old signal generators had the 53 wpm  
speed. I do correctly
remember that the 5A mechanism was very similar to a Model 26.

Jack K0TTY

NNNN

-------------- Original message from <eugene at hertzmail.com>:  
--------------


 >
 > Mine is actually a western union ticker model 5A so it probably isn't
 > exactly a 401 but either way, Jack was able to bring it back to  
life. I
 > still have a project on my plate to make a polar switching system and
 > then a program to send out the 6-level code and have this starting
 > printing modern stock quotes. No time for fun these days.
 >
 > Eugene
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
 > [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Haynes
 > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:22 PM
 > To: Don Robert House
 > Cc: wa2hwj at att.net; Jim Haynes; Gil Smith
 > Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Re: Larry's gears...
 >
 >
 > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Don Robert House wrote:
 >
 > > I remember Jim Haynes mentioning this some time ago.
 > >
 > > Don K9TTY
 > >
 > > On 16 Sep 2008, at 11:32 AM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote:
 > >
 > > The WU 401 "ticker" that I worked on for Eugene also ran at 53  
wpm (6
 > level).
 > >
 > > Jack K0TTY
 >
 > Not to be pedantic, but the 401 was a Baudot printer made from a  
ticker.
 > In WW-II W.U. needed more teleprinters and couldn't get them, and
 > apparently had a surplus of tickers. Only a few were made, because
 > W.U. merged with Postal Telegraph and that made available an adequate
 > supply of regular teleprinters.
 >
 > Maybe someone with one of the tickers can tell us what model number
 > W.U. gave it. It doesn't seem to have had a Teletype model number,
 > because the numbered models were mainly a Bell System thing and the
 > tickers were not made for the Bell System. It may also have a  
Teletype
 > letter code.
 >
 >
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