[GreenKeys] Intro -- new to the list but not to RTTY

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Welcome to the Group Jim!
I would be interested to know  what TU units  you were using  along  with 
the BC-610's  As I am trying to  figure out   what LUKE  AFB  had been using  
with their  BC-610...  I  ran AGA6LU there  for a time  but  my  main  AFSC 
was ground radio Maint  30454
 
   

Again, Welcome! and... speaking of pictures do you have 

any  of the   MARS station>?   We are putting  together a 
web section on the museum's website on  MARS
 
Ed Sharpe KF7RWW archivist for SMECC _www.smec.org_ (http://www.smec.org/)  
Arizona's Communication  Museum.

 
 
In a message dated 12/17/2013 9:47:16 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
w0eb at cox.net writes:

Hi all  -- Been an RTTY enthusiast/operator since I was first licensed in 
1963.   I was in the Army, stationed in Northern Japan at the time.  Over the 
3  years I was there I got to work with a whole bunch of older Teletype 
Corp.  Model 14, 15, 19 and there ancillary equipment.  I was operating the 
base  MARS station during the big earthquake that tore up Anchorage, Alaska 
back  then and because of our location, propagation wise, we handled most of 
the  MARS health & welfare between Elmendorf AFB and the U.S.  We had one  
unique piece of equipment that we called the "Coke Machine".  Not sure  what 
company made it but it was a stack of typing reperforators and  
transmitter/distributors.  Receivers were Collins R-390A's and the  transmitters were OLD 
(even then) BC-610's that ran about 400 watts out.   We did have one huge 
5KW CW/RTTY transmitter (don't remember the number but it  used a pair of 833 
triodes in push/pull).  We were set up to receive  & transmit simultaneously 
on several frequ
encies and picked up the  traffic from Elmendorf on 8.080 MHz, 
re-transmitting it to AF Headquarters in  Hawaii on 14.832 MHz.  The typing reperfs were 
punching tape and when it  got long enough, we fed the tape into the T/D's 
for re-transmission.  We  also were communicating directly with Hawaii on 
13.995 MHz using another  BC-610 and Model 15 so if they got a garbled 
message, we could stop the tape  and either back it up or break the bad msg out and 
feed it into the T/D on the  "order wire" re-running it until they got it.

Haven't had to do  anything anywhere near that hectic in the years since, 
but we really wound up  with a sense of accomplishment and a lot of thank-you 
letters from the Army,  Air Force and the recipients of the messages.  
Amazing that the  mechanical machines ran better then than some of the 
electronic stuff we use  today - LOL.

Jim - W0EB
Park City, KS

Retired Army  Sergeant
Retired Master  Electrician
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