[GreenKeys] Fw: RTTY contest

[Larry Tighe]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve 
To: larryradio at att.net 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:00 PM
Subject: RTTY contest


Larry,
I made the pilgramage to Dayton for the 2011 hamfest. There was a forum
and talk about RTTY contests, so I was really jazzed to be able to attend.
The room was PACKED...at least 200 people. I was thinking "wow, I'm not
the only RTTY enthusiast here".

The then talk started.... First slide showed a model 19 and the speaker starts
talking about the "bad old days of noisy contraptions". Went down hill from
there. Chatted with a couple old timers after the forum and got seriously
strange looks when I asked if they were using mechanical TTY machines.
Its computers talking to computers. Why don't they just do packet?!
The same is true for CW....   Very sad IMO.
                           Steve W6SSP
ps-don't know how to reply to messages in the greenkeys forum....feel
free to forward this there if you want to
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