[GreenKeys] news wire photos

[tony j. podrasky]

Hey Guys;

Back in the late 60's we went to Canal Street in NYC and got our hands on
a bunch of those W-U Desk FAX's.

We'd get on 15M SSB at night when the band was closed-down and send FAX's
back-and-forth.

I'll tell you one thing, though: those things just didn't do justice to
the gate-fold models...

UE
W6ESE - tony
NNNN
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pacquerat at comcast.net wrote:
> Lee K9WRU said, 
> 
> Ya know, I'm beginning to suspect that I'm the only reader of this reflector 
> who has actually hands on sent and received one of these old fax images. 
> If you push me much harder I might even have to take a few photos of my 
> efforts of 40 years ago! 
> 
> Lee K9WRU
> 
> 
> Ummm, Not so Lee!
> 
> 40 years ago I had gotten several Western-Union "DeskFax" machines. Following some of the modifications as described in a QST article I made their conversions and incorporated my own. I resolved the synchronizing issue so that scanning of both the transmitter and receiver would create a received document that was not split in half. I used the machines on 6-meters locally, when summer sporadic E- came I sent several transmissions to the west from my QTH in S. Eastern MA and they were received, not by a Ham but a short-wave enthusiast listening on 6 with a W-E DeskFax online. He sent me a copy by usps mail of my "CQ" transmission and I was most impressed. That was the last summer I had a complete station set-up. I had to move to my current location and raise my family. My hobbies took a back seat until my retirement two years ago... The DeskFax machine and the Lafayette HA-460 are still in the attic, along with all of the supplies.
> 
> 
> FWIW: Line drawings worked very well with the "spark" paper that "W-E" used.
> 
> I found someone who has set up a web page on these machines:
> 
> http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/index.html#service
> 
> Best!
> 
> Charles
> 
> WA1JFD
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-- 
Tony J. Podrasky | Trouble strikes in "series of threes" - but when
                  | working around the house the next job after a
                  | "series of three" is not the fourth job -- it's
                  | the start of a brand new "series of three".