[GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 96, Issue 5

[Doug Alderdice]

At 04:15 PM 1/7/2012 -0600, DR HOUSE wrote:
>The 12 is a multi-magnet arrangement with two motors and lots of 
>wiring.  Doug told me it sounds like a small chorus of sewing machines 
>only louder.

More or less.  There is a comment in an early RTTY publication, might've 
been the one by Wayne Green, that characterizes the Model 12 as sounding 
like a cement mixer when it is running and I would agree with that.

My Model 12 is unfortunately still not completely operational.  I had it 
running once back when I first got it in the early 90s when I lashed it all 
up on the kitchen table with every clip lead I own.  It was put aside for 
the next ten years or so until I bought a house big house for all my "toys" 
and I could finally put the pieces all together on the M.12 table.  The 
previous owner had had it wired into a tube keyer which I didn't have.  I 
started to rebuild/rewire the table but so far haven't been able to get the 
thing to print correctly.  I suspect there are contact/alignment problems 
with the big interconnecting jacks on the table, but I have not been able 
to devote a lot of attention to it at any one time given all the other 
tasks and responsibilities I have going on.  It is definitely not 
forgotten, however!

73,

Doug, KA2WFT