[GreenKeys] RTTY Round Up with a real Teletype!

[drlegendre .]

Allow me to kick-off the discussion by freely admitting that I covet your
rather tidy ASR33.

When you've tired of the noise, feel free to drop that one off on my back
porch. Promise I'll take good care of it.

Oh BTW, nice kit, lol.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 4:09 PM, David Tumey via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --dave
> W5DT
>
>
> 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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