[GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay

Fri Nov 29 12:32:08 EST 2013

Thanks for the info, Jack.

Back when Atlantic Surplus Sales was around and advertising in CQ Magazine, 
my boyhood friend K2YGL (still in the FCC database as W1GAB) and I trekked 
from Long Island into Brooklyn, New York and bought two FRXD-3-EL machines. 
I have no recollection of how we got them home. I think the year was 1961.

Tom was a bit of a genius (later graduated from MIT), and he figured out how 
to wire the cam switches to read the tape coming out of the punching block.

I used to love punching tape off the air and then send the same data back to 
the originating station. Of course, I had a collection of RYRY and CQ tapes, 
storing them in aluminum 35-mm film cans. When perforating tape, I used to 
catch the chads in a tin can strapped to the bottom of the operating desk; I 
had cut a hole in the desk so they could fall through. Hee hee.

I miss that machine no end. -

Today I can send an ASCII file from an old Model 100 Radio Shack portable 
CMOS computer to my Kantronics UTU, and thence into the local loop to drive 
my Model 28 selector magnets. The "action" is a great source of fascination 
to my 7-year old grandson! But the magic isn't the same for me as the 
"climbing monkey" reperf back in the day, that's for sure.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
Kennebunk, Maine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Hart" <wa2hwj at att.net>
To: "'AI2Q'" <ai2q at roadrunner.com>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay

Alex,

It's worth it just for the cover.
George, W7TTY, gave me a decent FRXD with cover
a few years ago. The reperf worked fine, but the wiring for the
TD was all hacked up.  It's on my "...get around to it" list.
But, it has a place of honor in the Ham shack.

73,

Jack K0TTY

-----Original Message-----
From: AI2Q [mailto:ai2q at roadrunner.com]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:58 AM
To: Jack Hart; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay

Years ago (early 1960s) I had an FRXD-3-EL non-typing "climbing monkey"
reperf in my shack.

How I loved that machine, and have never heard of one since, until this
e-mail thread appeared this morning.

Sad to say, I donated my FRXD to The Science Museum of Long Island, and it
discarded it, much to my dismay.

I would love to find another, but am hesitant about buying this typing FRXD
on eBay.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
Member: ARRL, FOC, RSGB, CWops, QRP-L, Antique Wireless Association, New
England Radio Discussion Society, DXCC Honor Roll, 16ØM DXCC, 8ØM DXCC
http://home.roadrunner.com/~alexmm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Hart" <wa2hwj at att.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay

> While the FRXD is not a very common machine, the cover is even
> more uncommon. It does have some parts missing.
> The "right side" is basically a Model 14 reperf...the "left side"
> is a TD with a "climbing head" that can read the last character
> punched on the reperf.
>
> Jack K0TTY
>
> NNNN
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Strangfeld
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:12 AM
> To: 'David Burns'; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay
>
> It is an FRXD.  One of the photos shows the tag.  Compare it to this
> photo:
>
> http://www.nadcomm.com/frxd.htm
>
> The FRXD is the model 14/15-era predecessor of the model 28-RT.  The
> mechanism on the left of the photo is a transmitter-distributor with a
> climbing head that reads up to the last character punched.  These are
> tape-relay units, not crypto.
>
> Nick has a You-Tube of the 28-RT in action here:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD97YVIaPlA
>
> The eBay one looks like it is missing the sheet metal cover that should be
> over the tape reader on the left and the chad box on the lower right.
>
> I have an NOS FXRD with the matching table and might (not sure) have a
> spare
> chad box if someone on the list buys this.
>
> Bill W8FIX
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Burns
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:29 AM
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Not Your Average M14 - eBay
>
> This is an exceedingly curious bit of Teletype equipment as it looks at
> first glance as though it were a M14 reperf, but it has more than one
> station where tape is manipulated, in addition to what appears to be 5-bit
> parallel electrical pickup on the far right front side...perhaps for use
> in
> encryption?  Anybody know this?
>
>
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-NAVY-DEPARTMENT-PORTABLE-TELETYPE-MACHINE-WITH-
>
CASE-AND-GLASS-COVER-/271334136092?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2cc6591c
>
> -Dave in Boston
>
>
>
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