[GreenKeys] Survey

[Duncan M. Brown]

I saw my first TTY when I was about 8-10 years old.  There were two M15 ROs
spitting out the news (probably one AP & the other UPI) that I used to
watch in a public building (I must have been infected at that time).

I got my novice license KN2OEQ in 8th grade in 1958, Tech K2OEQ in 1959 and
then general a year or two later. Went into the Army in 1966.  The
recruiter said I could be a "Morse Intercept" operator, since I already
knew Morse Code, but after Basic Training, they sent me to Teletypewriter
Repairman (31J) School at Ft. Gordon, GA. Was trained on M14, M15, AN/TGC-1
Tape Relay and Kleinschmidt TT-4, TT-98, TT-76, AN/FGC-25; then a special
school on M28 & Mites.  Was sent to Veit-Nam and worked on Kleinschmidts,
but soon found that I knew more "radio" than most of the Army-trained radio
repairmen and moved over into radio repair.

After four years of the Army, went to work as an engineer designing Marine,
Land-Mobile and  Mobile Telephone VHF UHF radios and pretty much forgot
about TTY. Retired in 2000 and started volunteering at the Antique Wireless
Association Museum.  Found they had a TT-98 & TT-76 that no one knew what
to do with. Took them home and got them cleaned up & runing and that got my
interest in TTY going again. The Museum now has about 15 differnent models
of TTYs on display (most of them are working).

I don't have any TTY gear of my own at present, but get to bring home and
fix machines & converters from the Museum.  Finally got around to getting
my Amateur Extra license a few months ago.

Duncan Brown, K2OEQ

Chief TTY operator & repairman
AWA Electronic Communication Museum
http://www.antiquewireless.org/