[GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 72, Issue 6

[Bill Horne]

On 1/6/2010 9:11 AM, Larry Tighe wrote:
> I finally got my RTTY gear up and running with 1 KW on 20 meters.  Hadn't
> been on the air with TTY for 20+ years.
>
> I answered a CQ....copied him fine.  Went back...finished and he was gone!
> He blew me off!   In his rundown of equipment was a pile of "glass stuff" I
> didn't recongize...I'm hoplessly software retarded.
>
> It was at that point I quit,  realizing that my real fun with TTY was
> repairing and simply enjoying the electromechanical marvels that they are.
> I copy W1AW frequently.  I've tried to copy what little there is on the ham
> bands but they're always on two different frequencies anymore...far enuf
> apart that the TU won't copy both.
>
> So "frankly, I don't give a damn" to work folks anymore....I'm in total
> bliss just screwing around with the machines and bringing them back to
> "factory".
>    

Please don't: it's only by being on the air that other hams realize 
there's still such a thing as a Teletype _MACHINE_, instead of a 
"terminal emulator". It's only because of guys like you that these 
machines still run, and you deserve to have others know that.

Go ahead, put it on your Brag Tape: "TELETYPE MACHINES RESTORED, 
REPAIRED, AND STILL USED."

FWIW. YMMV.

73,

Bill, W1AC

-- 
E. William Horne
William Warren Consulting
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