[GreenKeys] Anyone using TU's?

Radio AI2Q ai2q at roadrunner.com
Sun Jan 10 13:48:37 EST 2016


Bill, I use an old Kantronics UTU, slightly modified, for my Model 28. You 
can look at what I did on my Web pages.

Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex
http://ai2q.org/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Sheldon" <w0eb at cox.net>
To: "Bill Abate" <wabate at verizon.net>; <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Anyone using TU's?


>I don't have a machine teletype any more (house is too small so gave away 
>my 28ASR 15 years ago), but I do use a T/U rather than sound card software. 
>I picked up an absolutely brand new HAL ST-8000A off eBay a bit over a year 
>ago.  It was one of those that NSA had bought back in the early 80's and 
>never issued.  I got it from a guy that had bought a bunch of them.  It was 
>still in the unopened HAL shipping boxes with all protective wrappings 
>intact.  The moisture indicators were all blue as well, indicating that it 
>had been kept dry over the years.  I talked with the people at HAL and got 
>their software package DS RTTY-WIN for it.  I modified the rear panel 
>connectors to DE-9's from the original military Cannon plugs.  Made it much 
>easier to interface to the computer.  PTT, Audio IN and Audio OUT were 
>modified to RCA connectors.
>
> Main reason I picked it up was during my career in the Army Security 
> Agency, just before I retired in 1981, I wrote up the lesson plans to 
> teach the repair of these.  We never ran the class though as the warranty 
> was a direct replacement of the box by HAL at the time.  Wish I had kept a 
> copy of the LP, it would come in handy today as there a number of these 
> boxes out there.
>
> Jim - W0EB
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Bill Abate" <wabate at verizon.net>
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: 1/5/2016 1:25:37 PM
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Anyone using TU's?
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Before I try to list stuff I have here, I should ask if anyone is using 
>>terminal units or is this passé?  I have DT-600 boards, Electrocom TU, 
>>Bell System 7 pole audio filters, etc.  Any interest?  Also have 28 RO 
>>with 100 WPM gears.  Im near Philly.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Bill, K3PGB
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