[GreenKeys] Fw: RTTY contest

[Lee Mushel]

Gentlemen,

I will admit to getting several good chuckles from this thread.   First, if you really want to see how frustrated people can be, just QRZ another Wisconsin ham, W9XZ.  Last week I had a discussion with a group who are learning how to adapt ham radio to the National Incident Management System and when the topic of digital communications came up they knew only of D-star and Pactor.   I foolishly asked why they didn't include PSK-31 (I knew better than to rock the boat with RTTY) and I was promptly informed that the only people who used that mode were over 70.   Since I am 73 I felt I should say no more!

I do have eight or nine machines and none newer than both 28 ASR and KSR and those two are always ready for instant demonstration to benefit visitors to my shack.  I am always ready to be amused by the almost automatic conclusion that given my age and my possession of  14, 15, 19, and 26 machines I must just be some goofy old guy living in the past.   There is always some indication of shock when these people find out that I have Flex5000A and 3000 rigs and a SDR-IQ and that all radios (TS-480SAT, D-700, 746) are connected to individual computers and only the old Yaesu third back up rig is not.   I don't think I'm living in the past but, rather, just love complex old mechanical things that click, chink, thunk and smell like oil.

Two days ago I volunteered to animate a political parade float "with an original complex clockwork mechanism."   Yes, I was raised on tinker toys and erector sets and several CAD programs do reside on the machine I'm using to write this!

73

Lee   K9WRU
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Larry Tighe 
  To: Greenkeys Greenkeys 
  Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:03 PM
  Subject: [GreenKeys] Fw: RTTY contest



  ----- 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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