[GreenKeys] eBay 140327822413

[zeke440 .]

yep yep yep..... its distortion test set....

used it (or one alot like it) quite a bit...
 
I beliece the rotary sw at the bottom left has a "fox test"
at the lower left rotary position 

after repairing a '28 would have a tec controller patch me
a test and make sure the set would work thru a range setting
with a known distortion level...

we (ASA, INSCOM) had one in the PM team shop and tested all printers ('28, '36 & '37) befor returning them to their 
"off line" positions... where signals would be fed by 
"some kind" of reciever/demod or computer system...


Andy


> To: w7lv at cox.net
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:46:33 -0400
> From: wa3frp at aol.com
> CC: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] eBay 140327822413
>
> Hi Buck,
>
> Looking at the top switches, I see a way to change the spped from 50 to 200 baud.? The second switch allows the unit to send from 0 to 43 percent distortion.? The?third switch allows for transmission in Baudot, ASCII, EBCDIC and EBIC.? I see other switches for stop length and the small switches along the bottom appear to allow the operator to select a character or two for tranmission.? I'm not usre of the manufacturer but I used to see a lot of these units in central offices where various test patterns could be transmitted over lines under test, sometimes to a distant teleprinter or looped back to the central office where the test signal was monitored.??
>
> I hope that this helps.
>
> 73
> Russ WA3FRP
>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:30:23 -0700
> From: Buck Kidd 
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] eBay 140327822413
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
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> Can anyone identify this?
>
> Looks like something pre-ST-6, pre-Centronics that a couple of my
> 1971-era buddies and I would have dreamed up over multiple Molson's.
>
> Anything that converts to EBCDIC can't be all bad. Maybe I can get it to
> talk to that Core memory from an IBM 1130 that I use for a doorstop.
>
> DE BUCK?? W7LV
>
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