[GreenKeys] Under 40?! Call out for age...

[Nick England]

I am 24 in teletype years (5 level => base 32 notation)
I'd visited hams using RTTY back in the early 60's and used M33s on
computers in the 70's, but wasn't at all interested until I developed this
fascination with US Navy Radio Communications about 8 years ago. Bill
Strangfeld gave me a 28ASR needing restoration and I swore that would be
the only Teletype I'd ever need or want........and then somehow the neurons
started firing and the endorphins started pumping (or, more likely,
insanity struck). Thanks to greenkeyers and the "encouragement" of Bill and
my pal John Poulton K4OZY, I now have about twenty M28 machines of various
flavors (and one USN Mite) that I have gotten running in my "Basement
NAVCOMMSTA"
http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-tty-151122.jpg
and there are another dozen or so M28 machines on the project shelves. What
fun!

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


>
> *From:* GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf
> Of *Mark Hall
> *Sent:* Monday, December 28, 2015 12:07 PM
> *To:* greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> *Subject:* [GreenKeys] Under 40?! Call out for age...
>
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> The query posted about any Greenkeyers "under 40" made me curious...
>
> That's a real dangerous thing for me.
>
> What is the age range of Greenkeyers on here?
>
> Can we identify who our tribal elders are, and who are the "tenderfoots"?
>
> I'll go first. I'm 56, grew up around model 15's and forgot them
> completely
>
> when I was in high school. I rediscovered all this when I turned 54. So I
> am
>
> slowly returning to childhood!
>
> I'm probably the youngest Greenkeyer. That being said, if it is indeed so,
>
> would make me the "cub", and the go-fer for the rest of you guys. What
>
> better place to be, than lowliest of all, and student of all... I may not
> have
>
> come from your era, but I can continue the madness!
>
>
>
> OK. Any others? It can't be any more embarrassing. I waded in first!
>
> 73!
>
> Mark
> <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>
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