[GreenKeys] Real RTTY on Amateur radio HF

[wa3frp at aol.com]

Hi Lar,
 
Sorry to hear about your bad experience with that 20M RTTY QSO.  I don’t understand how a single problem with one ham would make you want 
to take your ball and go home. I wasn’t there and I don’t know what happened but maybe, just maybe, he didn’t “blow you off”. It is also possible 
that that other guy had a computer lock up, a receiver or transmitter problem, maybe even a power failure. It happens. A LOT! I know that I’ve 
dropped off in the middle of a RTTY QSO for any number of reasons including a recent situation when my M28ASR motor started to smoke. 
When stuff like that happens, you ditch the QSO.
 
I encourage you to try again.  I am on the air daily with my Teletype Model 28ASR, HAL ST-6, Collins T-440 and R-390A and I’d love a QSO 
with you and anyone else on the list. I even have some nice picture tapes from the 1960s and it would be fun to transmit them over the air like the 
good old days.
 
I just installed a new inverted V for 80M and I’m looking for QSOs to test it out.  So far, since Saturday I’ve worked 12 states on 80M and had QSOs 
with Ed, P49X, in Aruba and Jurgis, LY9Y, in Lithuania.   I am also QRV on 40M, 30M, 20M 17M and 15M. 
 
By the way, a lot of the guys on “Glass” are only there because they didn’t have your skill in maintaining their teleprinter. In many cases, these guys had 
to ditch there teleprinter because it failed when it wasn’t properly maintained and there was no one there to help them fix it. I run into so many guys who 
are thrilled to work a real RTTY machine. I worked a guy over the weekend who was so happy that we spent a half hour going back and forth about 
the kind of equipment that he used to have and how he misses a real Teletype machine.
 
I hope that you – and everyone on the list will consider getting on-the-air in 2010.  
 
73
Russ WA3FRP