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[tony j. podrasky]

Hey Dave;

HAH!

I used to print those stations - even though not much came thru
that was of readable interest.

I lived on Long Island, New York. One day, when I was out toolin'
around in my Kharman Ghia, the A-M radio swamped, and I could tell
that it was a RTTY signal jamming it. I drove around and came across
a huge "empty field". Rhombics everywhere! I found the gate, and it
was locked. To this day I kick myself for not leaving a calling card
on it. Probably one of the op's was a ham - if not, the engineer that
ran the transmitters would probably be thrilled to have a young guy
come thru who was fascinated with WSY70.

Later, when I learned how to design SELCALs, I made one specially
for those stations: It decoded 8 sequences that came before open
format messages. Words like "Tropical", "Hurricane", "Update", "Special
Features".

I'd run home from high school and go straight to the 28-ASR to see
what it had printed. The sigs were always 599 and the text crisp.

I got a large wall map of the USA/Canada/Carribean and used to track
the tropical depressions with pins. It was neat to watch the storms
come and go, and to see how the pins moved around on the map.

Doggone, - I wish those times had never changed! SWL'ing was so
much fun in those days. All the RTTY and FAX stations all over the
place.

One of the guys was visiting my ham shack a few years ago, marveling
at the gear. I said: "you know whut? - I'd trade all this JUNK in a
SECOND - for the pair of ARC-5's on 80 meters - and the fun I had
with them!"

UE,
W6ESE / ex-WA2EAA
NNNNZCZC

NNN7DXB at aol.com wrote:
> Tony:
> 
> WBR70.....Miami, FL, Weather, 1960s and 70s?
> 
> Sister station was WSY70 ....New York.
> 
> Both were 60 wpm RTTY
> 
> Dave


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