[GreenKeys] news wire photos

[Herb Graeber]

I'll join the trip down memory lane.  The 8080 WX broadcast
was transmitted from Bldg. 128 at NSS in Annapolis.  I can't
remember the designation of the transmitter.  (I've slept since
1967-68.)  Seems to me maybe a AN/FRT-15(?).  If  I
remember correctly, it ran a pair of 4-1000A's in the final.
Anyway, used to walk by that transmitter everyday.  Those
were the days!

73...Herb K5HG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David and Joyce Meier" <n4mw at msn.com>
To: "Greenkeys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] news wire photos


>I too did some facsimile over the air around 1969 using a military surplus
> Navy machine - the FNP-IS/A if I remember correctly.  Several hams in the
> Memphis area received them through the MARS program and put them on the 
> air.
> The machines were large, consisting of a power supply box and a similar 
> size
> unit that had something like a lathe bed, headstock and tailstock on top.
> Photographic paper was placed in a light-tight drum which was positioned 
> on
> the machine bed between the head and tail stocks.  A shutter was then 
> opened
> to expose the film to a "crater" lamp which travelled as the picture was
> received.  But wait - there was also a phototube on the carriage which 
> also
> allowed sending pictures.  The machines automatically synchronized with 
> each
> other and sent/received using audio tones.  I also had a modified drum 
> which
> was open, for use with electric paper and a stylus from a Gestetner
> facsimile machine of the time.
>
> I still have samples of my receptions, both from other hams and from the
> wire service facsimile transmissions on HF.  The Navy transmitted weather
> continuously on 8080 kcs.  I remember once receiving a photo that appeared
> in the local paper the next day - that seemed cool to me then and now.
>
> I also played with the smaller Western Union DeskFax machines.  I still 
> have
> some paper for these I think.
>
> Dave Meier N4MW
> www.n4mw.com
>
>
> ...
>
>
>> 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
>
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