[GreenKeys] RTTY and ITTY: It took me a very long time, but I am enjoying it...

[Don Robert House]

In 1948 I was 6 years old.  Not into HAM radio nor RTTY. My father and  
grandfather built me an electric board with switches, buzzers and  
lights.
Now 60 years later I still am into lots of things electrical.

In 1958 I was 16 and building Radio Shack kits.  I still have most of  
them.
I think the Ocean Hopper was my favorite.

In 1968 I was 26 and out of the Navy working for Illinois Bell as a  
Teletype serviceman.
Short wave listening and no thoughts of having my own Teletype machine.
In 1978 I was still with the phone company but now heading up the data  
test center.

In 1988 I was promoted from special services circuit designer to  
transmission engineering.
I picked up my first 35ASR with only a few hours on it from a vendor  
who was going to trash it.
Along with the ASR came a 35RO.  I used the ASR to print labels for  
the Packard Club mailings.

In 1998 I was living in California just fired from Tollgrade  
Communications and taking care of
my parents estate.  Having started the museum Pac Bell came out and  
did a feature on my use
of ISDN and our museum.

2008 brings me back to northern Illinois, a place I had hoped to stay  
away from.  Most of the items
in the museum are stored and owned by the SDSU Library.  However I  
still have a large collection
of Teletype machines and am now finally a HAM.  Got my Technician in  
2005 and my General in
April of 2008.

A lot of things happened to me along the way. But it is easier to take  
a subject and do every 10 year steps.

I hope this did not bother you too much.

Don
K9TTY