[GreenKeys] TTY Demo at Dayton in 2010?

[Jim Haynes]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Jack wrote:

> Talk about legends...Byron, W2JTP, tuned up my first set of
> toroids...I was using a single filter in my Twin Cities TU
> using an audio output tranformer primary with a paralled
> capacitor. Amazingly, it worked fine. Byron was happy
> to help a 15-year-old RTTY'er.

The old timers were wonderfully helpful guys - not that the later ones
were not.  It was a time when they had the enthusiasm of missionaries,
as RTTY was rare and they felt a need to promote it by helping as many
as possible get on the air.  I was probably about 16 when I first
learned of RTTY and got in touch with Merrill Swan, W6AEE, publisher
of RTTY magazine.  We exchanged lots of letters in the era before
email and before I was on the air.  Those early RTTY societies did
a lot of hard work chipping away at the Bell System bureaucracy to get
old machines released to amateurs rather than destroyed.  Bob Weitbrecht,
W6NRM/W9TCJ put a lot of miles on his station wagon traveling to help
people get their RTTY stations going, and giving demonstrations at
ham meetings.  There was the famous BoBeeP expedition where Bob and
Boyd "Beep" Phelps W0BP traveled all across the country visiting
people who wanted help getting on the air with RTTY, as well as those
who were already on.