[GreenKeys] TTY Demo at Dayton in 2010?

[Derek Cohn/WB0TUA]

Hi Everyone,

This year, I went to the Dayton Hamvention primarily to staff the indoor 
both hosted by the Morse Telegraph Club.  We set up a working landline 
telegraph and explained our equipment, the history of the landline 
telegraph, and the differences between the codes. We also heavily promoted 
how to get started learning the landline Morse and how to use free software 
on your PC to create a virtual telegraph wire.  This worked out very well 
for us and not only did we get a lot of interest, many people joined our 
club.

I'm thinking the very same thing could be done with mechanical teletypes. 
Motivated members of the greenkeys group could assemble a working teletype 
display that I'm sure would attract lots of people.  Having just put 
together a Model 15, Model 14 Typing Reperforator, and Model 14 TD 
demonstration at our local railroad depot, I know it's just not that big a 
deal to do it if you have working equipment.  It would probably only be 
slightly more difficult to have a pair of machines on a local dc loop or use 
vintage terminal units like the ST-6 to set up a 2M RTTY link.  You could 
have one visitor type on a machine and a booth volunteer reply.  Seems like 
that would be a valid QSO and you could hand out commemorative QSL cards 
that say something like "Don't throw away your vintage teletype equipment. 
Sign up for the Greenkeys mailing list!".

Because I have my hands full with the landline Morse demo, I'm probably not 
a good candidate to organize something like this.  However, I would surely 
be able to drag some equipment for the demo.  If you guys would want to do 
that, perhaps you could set up next to our Morse booth assuming the rattle 
from the TTY machines didn't make the copy over the morse wire too 
difficult.  Might be some synergy in having two dinosaur technologies 
adjacent to one another.

We have a year to plan this...

73,

Derek Cohn
Morse Telegraph Club - Alton Chapter
Office UD, Sine DJ
Amateur Radio Station - WBØTUA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stan Wilson" <ak0b at swbell.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:22 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Did anyone attend the Dayton RTTY forum?


>
> I would be interested in knowing what was discussed at the Dayton Rtty 
> Forum
> last month and I expect quite a few others on the Greenkeys mailing list
> would also be interested.
>
> It would also be interesting to know how many of us still have operating 
> tty
> iron.  Yes I have MMTTY but I also have M28s and supporting TUs.
>
> What is the best frequency to find someone running a M28 today?
>
> Stan ak0b
>
>
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