[GreenKeys] RTTY Milestone

[Lee Mushel]

My gosh, talk about memories!   Yes, at this same time, in Milwaukee,  we had a very well attended Sunday net on two meter AFSK.   Since there wasn't much two meter equipment available we all used converted Motorola police gear.   Just a few days ago I ran across a "yellow sheet" QSO remnant that I had used as a book mark in a 1962 QST.   The big deal was obtaining the 88 mH toroids from Elliot Buchanan.  Of course, very few people had any way of tuning the filters we built.  I used models 19 and 26 and had a FRXD chunking along as well.
Actually, I never even bothered to build the FSK board for my home brewed ST-6, since all activity was AFSK.  So I was quite amused by the initial speculation on this thread over whether or not 2M FM was a viable mode!  But things do change.   The other day I was walking past a cell phone kiosk and overheard a discussion where one of the parties had never seen a rotary dial telephone  and I could tell that he didn't have the faintest idea what was being talked about!

73

Lee  K9WRU
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeffrey D Angus 
  To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RTTY Milestone


  On 11/19/2013 4:58 PM, Jack Hart wrote:

    Almost all RTTY activity in those days was on 2 Meters.

     73,

    Jack K0TTY

  Speaking of which, one of the more fun times I had was on
  145.85 MHz 2 meter AM AFSK during the mid to late '70s.
  I had a regular schedule with two guys. On in Norwalk, Joel
  I think, and one in Upland, Darrel if I remember right. It's
  been a while. ;-)

  I was running a Gonset GC-105, a homebrew TU and a 19.

  Anybody happen to know/remember who I'm talking about?

  Jeff-1.0
  wa6fwi





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