[GreenKeys] HAL ST 8000

[Jim Sheldon]

That one looks pretty decent.  The "buy it now" price is a tad high but 
not overly so for one of those in prime shape.  I found an 8000A on eBay 
last year that was actually brand new in the original HAL shipping 
cartons that had been located in a warehouse full of them that NSA or 
the Military intelligence services had sold off.  I picked it up off 
eBay for $500 including shipping.  When I got it, the cartons had NOT 
been opened since HAL had sealed them back in the early 80's and the 
original humidity indicator strips were still blue as well.  It had 
military type connectors on the back that I changed out for RCA jacks 
for PTT and the AFSK audio in/out plus a couple of DB-9 connectors for 
the RS-232 in/out and "order wire" remote control connectors.  The guys 
at HAL were kind enough to send me the right internal connectors to make 
up the necessary cabling to my own back panel connectors as well.  They 
still have their DSRTTY-WIN program available which will run Baudot with 
it.  This thing will run any shift but anything other than ASCII 
encode/decode has to be done in external software.  Using DSRTTY-WIN it 
seems t do a much better job of decoding standard RTTY than the older 
ones though.

I haven't seen one of these listed for quite some time.

If you haven't seen the 8000A, take a look at the pix of my operating 
desk on QRZ.  It's on the right hand side of the shelf.

Jim -  W0EB

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From: "Darryl Ledden via GreenKeys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
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Sent: 6/22/2015 3:38:53 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] HAL ST 8000

>ST 8000 on ebay #39118010875
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