[GreenKeys] Madison TTY/Radio Update

[Nick England]

Many thanks to David for the photos etc. I'll forward his page to some
radio buddies.
The big rack is just this ham's rather neat way of mounting a hodge-podge
of fairly common navy surplus gear. None of it was ever mounted like this
in actual navy use.
The item with scope is indeed a homebrew RTTY converter. Perhaps someone
can ID the circuit board installed in it.
The PP-454 power supply at the bottom was originally intended for use with
other equipment but has been adapted by this fellow to power the TCS set.
N.B. If he had an FRT-5 transmitter you would have noticed it. It is about
the size of your average mini-van.

Except as a memorial to this particular ham's ingenuity (or 1950's ham
aesthetics in general), there is no intrinsic value to this rack
configuration. The components are fairly common. At a hamfest nothing would
go for more than $50. But as always eBay might turn up a couple of people
who desperately want a souvenir and don't want to wait or spend time
scrounging at hamfests. I hate seeing anything parted out but theses pieces
of gear are still pretty common so no huge loss.
YMMV
Nick

On Saturday, May 21, 2016, <dmm at lemur.com> wrote:

>
> Here's some more information on the equiment in Madison.  I'm posting
> this to the entire Greenkeys list (not just the Wisconsinites) because
> there's some new equipment to list.
>
>

-- 
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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