[GreenKeys] news wire photos

[Lee Mushel]

OK, Charles, now there are two of us.   Actually, there should be many more 
since this was a topic that the League promoted but I guess not......

Yes, those Desk Fax machines are the ones in my shed.   And I don't think I 
want to set up to try a QSO---simply too many things I want to do that 
actually make sense!   But I never had any trouble with actual photo images. 
They were certainly of quality comparable to the old AP wirefax of the 
40s-50s.

73

Lee    K9WRU
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] news wire photos


> 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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