[GreenKeys] ARRL RTTY contest

[Jay WS7I]

Lar We're not only about "preservation.  I have been on this list for a 
long time off and on until the volume gets too high.  As a historian I 
think you are trying for revisionist history.  RTTY started as AFSK in 
ham radio usage but fairly quickly changed to FSK.  Now it has again 
changed to mostly AFSK.  Since ~1950 to 1980 is thirty years and 1980 to 
2012 is 32.  We have used electronic means on the ends of the baudot 
signal now for far longer in ham radio than have we used machines.

We should preserve not only the machines but rather the entire width and 
breadth of the RTTY history.

So maybe you should realize that the title to the article wasn't "Green 
Keys" nor was it TELETYPE (TM) and gee I haven't ever seen a green key 
on a 28 or a 33 for that matter.

Oh as an author who has penned articles for a long time in many 
magazines I must admit I haven't seen much from any other member of 
"Greenkeys" to include yourself submitted to _QST _perhaps you or 
someone else should do so.

We are about all aspects of RTTY and I choose to preserve Terminal Units 
more than machines these days.  But also you folks should turn on your 
machines as I know for sure my Hal Communications software and my 
ST-8000 will both copy you and put out CR CR and LF's.  Besides might be 
a good thing to build a stunt box that would inject the sequence you 
need as well.

RTTY awards, DXing, and contesting are a long part of the RTTY tradition 
since the early 1950's and proceed anything that the ARRL does there 
days.   I could care less that you are engaged in a small part of 
preservation which I also support but you have missed out on much of the 
RTTY tradition that goes back as far as any machine or piece of equipment.

73 Jay WS7I



On 6/19/2012 8:40 AM, Larry Tighe wrote:
> For honor, accuracy and honesty of publication, maybe a column called 
> RTTY should change it's name to
> reflect what it's really about....Hmmm, CPAT or computers posing as 
> teletypes  LOL  Or, maybe
> CUOB, computers using old Baudot.  As an "aside" we're not about 
> "Sport" but preservation.
>

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