[GreenKeys] RTTY Round Up with a real Teletype!

[David Tumey]

Greenkeys,
After 2 years of hard work, I am running a real Teletype in the RTTY RU.  My goal this year is 100 contacts and as of 4:23 pm I am at 80.
It was two years ago today that I caught the bug to get back into real RTTY while playing with my computer in the 2014 RTTY RU.  First thing I did was to join the Greenkeys list.  I managed to get back the EXACT teletype I had as a kid (found sitting in a warehouse for the past 20+ years) and after 24 months of restoration plus a trip to Wayne's TTY emergency room, this pile of junk is looking and working like new.
The station consists of a 15 M dipole on a 70 foot pneumatic mast mounted to the back of a Ford Econoline (Wayne will remember this as the van I used to pickup the 33's this past summer and drive them from his QTH 1400 miles to S. FL).  The antenna feeds a Kenwood TS-570DG --> HAL ST8000A --> X-Y scope & MFJ 1278.  The 1278 converts the 45.5/5 bit to 9600/8 bit, then into a USB port on the laptop, it is converted to 110/7 bit + parity, then off to a Telebyte Model 65A and finally into the '33.  I setup up CTRL-keys for all the RU macros.  What in the world could possibly go wrong?
I just tune up the signal on the scope and voila!
I can't thank the Greenkeys enough for helping make this dream come true.  Hope you don't mind me sharing a couple photos of the riggins.
73's and I will be looking for you on 15M this weekend.  20 more contacts to go and I can give the machine a rest.
--daveW5DT

P.S. Wayne, the '614 has been running for 8 hours straight and she is still holding together perfectly!  '369 is on deck for tomorrow.
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