[GreenKeys] RTTY - Contest Only?

[Roy Morgan]

On Apr 26, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Gary Franklin <franklin6209 at att.net> wrote:

> I haven’t paid a lot of attention to RTTY over the past decade given all the other digital modes. I have been monitoring recently because I want to get a Model 19 on the air.  Also are there RTTY news services on the short wave bands?

Gary,

Others will have more information:

>  Has RTTY been relegated to a contest only mode?  That is about all I see so far…. 

Unfortunately, the RTTY nets and graphics exchange events have all but disappeared.  The contests are mostly folks who use computers and such.  They don’t understand the 72 characters per line of real metal machines, and that causes some trouble for those with heavy metal.

>  Also are there RTTY news services on the short wave bands?

Not much at all.  There is a broadcast from Europe, I think, that gives weather and sea state warnings.  There also is a certainly-encrypted broadcast that’s on the air but pretty useless to us.

HOWever, there is an internet “broadcast” that is running all or most of the time.  You can get it just as you get the broadcasts from podcasts and radio stations.  Winamp or whatever your computer uses to hear such broadcasts will make the FSK audio available.  Feed that to your TU then run the real machine to get the broadcasts.  There is also a European broadcast and an autostart “channel”.

See this link:
http://rtty.com/
under Internet Teletype for the current info.


Here is some (old) info on this:

> 60 wpm (45.5 baud) News 24/7/365 from Sequim, WA USA
> (Bell Baudot 5 level coding)
> 
> World Wide Web URLs:
> 
> iTunes (PC & Mac):
> Menu = Advanced = Open URL
> 65.243.191.51:8000/listen.pls
> 
> Windows Media Player (PC):
> Menu = File = Open URL
> http://65.243.191.51:8000/

and 

> ZCZC
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Tom Tilson
> 
> Here is a "reminder" for those who love to  warm up the oil in their Teletype
> machines with ITTY (Internet Teletype) now that the cool weather is here:
> 
> <http://65.243.191.51:8000/listen.pls>
> 
> 
> 73,
> DE:  Tom Tillson
> All Things  Electromechanical.
> ITTY
> GREENKEYS
> HEAVYMETAL
> LL TTY
> 
> NNNN


AND, on Saturdays, noonish, Tom Tilson in Hyde Park, NY usually sends out picture tapes for our enjoyment.  Many are in “Overstrike” mode and need a genuine machine that has separate line return and line feed ability to print right.  But many are non-overstrike mode.  (Can’t find the link info on this just at the moment)

And, W1AW from ARRL headquarters sends RTTY on a known schedule.

See this page for details on some of these:

http://www.rtty.com/rtty_list.htm

Roy Morgan
RoyMorgan at alum.mit.edu
K1LKY Since 1958