[GreenKeys] TTY newbie - operating questions

[Steve Garrison]

You need to learn how to "butterfly" a tape.  :-)

Maybe Gene and I can give you a lesson when we come to see you!

Steve G./N4TTY <-- Note new call sign!

-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:49 PM
To: Greenkeys
Subject: [GreenKeys] TTY newbie - operating questions

OK, I've managed to get a few of these electromechanical marvels running,
now I'm starting to play with them. Mostly copying WLO and the odd ham QSO
that lasts more than 2.4 milliseconds.....

Sunday I discovered my pal K4OZY (who keeps getting me deeper and deeper
into trouble) has a bag full of TTY art tapes. So I borrowed a couple of
tapes to make some dupes. Then I stood around for *hours* holding onto the
roll and feeding it into the TD on my 28ASR and printing and punching a
copy. Then I spent another couple of hours winding it all back up (original
and dupe).

The last time I was dealing with a lot of paper tapes was back in the
prehistoric computer era where we had a high-speed punch with take-up reel,
a high-speed optical reader with reels, and IIRC a nifty rewinder made out
of an electric eraser.
http://www.virhistory.com/ncsu/varian620-01.JPG

So my question to you wonderfully experienced souls out there is what do you
do about unreeling/reeling tape? - For example if you're gonna feed anything
longer than a 3' piece of tape through a 28ASR, where do you hang the source
tape? Or is it all normally just trash can to trash can operation?
http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/relay/11Sep690005-vi.jpg

I suffer from not having hung around with any TTY guys when I was a
youngster...then again. maybe I would have turned out even stranger.

cheers,
Nick K4NYW
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