[GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available

[David I. Emery]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:26:28PM +0300, Sheldon Daitch wrote:
> > 	Believe it or not, some of the TTS 6 level AP stuff actually
> > found its way onto military HF VFT ISB "tone packs" in the 60s and early
> > 70s...
> >
> >   
>     I wonder if that was a news distribution feed for the regional 
> editions of the Stars And Stripes
> newspaper.  Years back, the compsition for the printing was done in the 
> regional printing operations, but
> some years back, that was all taken back to stateside and the page 
> masters were sent electronically
> to the several S&S print operations. 

	That is quite possible - the circuit I remember first
discovering this on was a circuit to Balboa in the canal zone, active in
the mid to late 60s from time to time (I think primary was satellite by
then, but backed with HF SSB)....  do think I remember running across it
elsewhere on VFT signals though...

>     The one station I worked for in NC was a UPI station, had an Extel 
> with the internal
> VFTG modem.  It made a compact package.  I remember one election year 
> cycle, when I
> was working for this station, and they wanted to have a printer at a 
> remote broadcast operation
> for election reporting, while doing the broadcast from the county 
> elections center.  I inquired with
> UPI for the price of a temporary circuit, and perhaps machine rental, 
> and the station management
> people balked on the price.  I realized the VFTG signal was simply an 
> audio circuit, so I had the
> telco install a broadcast loop from the station to the elections 
> center.  I verified I could back feed the
> loop with the UPI TTY audio, it worked, and we were on the air with the 
> machine at the remote
> location.

	We did that at our college radio station for election coverage
too... ran two or three machines to produce multiple copies of the 
feed for groups covering various races from different studios and sites.
Couple of guys from that era went on to real broadcast careers, notably
one became a CBS news foreign corrospondant for a couple of decades 
not sure if he is still working for CBS, but he was as recently as
a couple of years ago... based in London.

	I also discovered in the process of that hack one could record the
VFTG signal on audio tape and play it back through a machine...
and the modem...


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