[GreenKeys] Can we do tty 2 meters!>?AFSK ON FM? (was ] Ham testing)

[John Wingard]

Yes you can. Back in the '70's, we had an FM RTTY repeater in our area that had a range of about 100 miles or so. A bunch of us also operated RTTY FM simplex locally almost every night, primarily sending RTTY pictures back and forth. Loads of fun then, but unfortunately, there's little interest in it now, at least around here.

de John, WB4GLJ




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 From: Robert Laag <rlaag at pacbell.net>
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Can we do tty 2 meters!>?AFSK ON FM? (was ] Ham testing)
 


HI GUYS, WE HAVE HAD AN RTTY TWO METER REPEATER RUNNING ON FM HERE IN THE RIVERSIDE/SAN BERNARDINO AREA SINCE THE 70'S...  AND THE ONE IN LOS ANGELES WAS ON THE OFFICIAL RTTY CHANNEL FOR MANY YEARS SINCE TO 60'S...  MUCH FUN UNTIL ACTIVITY DIMINISHED...  BOB WA6ISG  


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Subject: [GreenKeys] Can we do tty 2 meters!>?AFSK ON FM? (was ] Ham testing)
 


Larry -   Gil...  Can we do tty 2 meters!>?AFSK ON FM? 
 
In a message dated 11/18/2013 9:03:49 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
gil at baudot.net writes:
Hey folks:
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>Well I have been running through practice exams on qrz.com for the  technician test for the last few days, and I went through some of the general  tests as well, just to see what was involved.  Since I didn't have a  callsign, I had to enter something for the qrz website.  I put in GILTTY  (and later realized it said "guilty").
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>Anyway, the tech practice didn't seem too bad, but the general had a lot  of questions that were just sheer memorization (this freq, that bandwidth,  this rule, etc).  I was bumming out that I would likely not remember all  the details.  That, and the fact that I hadn't taken any test in 30 years  made me a bit apprehensive.
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>But the tech test went pretty well -- got 100%.  I thought I'd try  the general.  I got 100% on that one too.  The guy that graded my  test said I should try the extra.  I told him that I had not practiced  for it or even peeked at any questions.  A couple of grumpier VE guys  didn't think that would be a good idea.  I took their disdain as a  personal challenge and took the extra test anyway.
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>Sadly, I didn't do as well on the extra.  I only got 86% -- but they  said that was good enough.  So I guess I am an extra now (or in a week or  so when it becomes official).
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>A big thanks to everyone who has answered all my silly questions over the  years, and helped my understand the ham side of things.
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>So how did you guys get a ...TTY callsign?  I want one 
too.
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>gil
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>gil smith
>greenkeys moderator
>gil at baudot.net
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