[GreenKeys] Mainline TT/L Wanted

Sun Aug 2 11:17:34 EDT 2015

Great  Project  Scott!

There are really  great plastic   office   machine   floor  covering things 
 that can be  found at  surplus sales... just  get one that the  legs will 
not  punch  though... you can get them new generally at a much increased 
price.

I echo your  thoughts on wanting first TU... I  have no idea what  mine  
was... it was on a rather square chassis  had a group of   tubes  a clear top 
polar  relay   rectangular    not  one of the round  ones.
for an indicator  it  had a upright  tube ( not and eye  tube)  with bars 
that  would move in and out   from each  side of the upright tube. (sortta  
unique?)

If  anyone in AZ ended up  with this  let  me   know.of  if   this was a   
standard  design  of  some kind   a 'one just like  mine'   would  be  ok 
too!

Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  

In a message dated 8/1/2015 7:34:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
whitebear1122 at comcast.net writes:

Greetings Greenkeys, a good friend of mine Tom W1CC and I are both  
Teletype and RTTY enthusiasts starting back in the 70's.   Tom was  doing RTTY with 
his Model 15 in 1970 while I did my Teletype both as a  Radioman in the 
Navy and later in College W9HHX where we paced 3rd in the  World in the 1976 
Volta RTTY Contest.  I still have my Model 15 Teletype  although it's been in 
the garage for many years sort of 'on the way  out'.  I tossed out my Model 
28 KSR years ago.  Sigh..    We are planning a fun Teletype nostalgia event 
this Fall and Winter where we  haul my model 15 back into the shack, with 
plastic covering the plush carpet  of course because my wife would kill me if 
the 15 flung oil on it… hi hi   and work 20 meter Teletype. Not 20 meter 
RTTY, but 20 meter  Teletype!   For all I know this may be the last Teletype 
adventure  for the both of us.  

We are wondering if anyone has a tube  Mainline TT/L tube terminal unit 
that we could buy for this experience.   Tom pointed out a beautiful Mainline 
TT/L terminal that sold on Ebay last  month.  We would like to run tube 
Teletype if possible.  Tom built a  Mainline TT/L back in 1970 and the nostalgia 
is strong.  If we can't find  a Mainline TT/L to restore, I will use my 
wonderful HAL ST-6 that I bought new  as a kit in 1982.  

Does anyone on here have a Mainline TT/L that  they would sell us old 
nostalgia guys?

I was a Radioman in the Navy  starting in 1971 and spent 3 years basically 
doing my RTTY hobby.  On my  second ship, the USS Okinawa LPH-3, there were 
maybe 50 Model 28's in the  radio room between Model 28 KSR's, 28 ASR's, and 
28 RO's, and stacked banks of  4 28 typing units.  I used to work Fleet 
Teletype Broadcast for 12 hours  at a time, 7 days a week, then eventually 
moved up to Ship Shore  Teletype.  I did Teletype 12 hours a day.. scrubbed 
toilets, waxed  floors, and chipped paint the rest of the time :)

All along the way we  were typing paper tape messages, often a few lines, 
often 28 pages, and then  rolling them up on our hands in a figure 8 form.   
When I was young  (and good looking hi hi) I could read Baudot on the paper 
tape because we  needed to be able to read it in order to edit the tapes, 
splice in new  portions, or replace errors.  I no longer can read Baudot but 
consider  myself lucky to have learned and practiced it at one time.    

I didn't use a particular "terminal unit" on the ships because they  were 
all incorporated into the cryptology gear.   At the Naval  Station Long Beach 
Ham station they had a Collins rig with a Navy URA-8A  terminal unit.  I 
loved that RTTY station and I worked the world on  RTTY.  Later in 1974 I was 
at W9HHX Milwaukee School of Engineering where  they had a Drake 4B station 
with a Collins 30S-1, Hal ST-6, and a Hygain  TH6DXX on the roof.  Oh my 
gosh, I was running nearly 1000 watts output  (yes OUTPUT) with that station 
into the TH6DXX and worked the world.  If  I called a station and they didn't 
answer, I knew they heard me….. hi  hi

Thanks for letting me wax nostalgic.

Thanks.  73, Scott  WA9WFA in Saint Paul MN  
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