[GreenKeys] TTY gear - Loves Park IL

[Nick England]

Here is a video of the "climbing head" TD in operation on my 28RT -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD97YVIaPlA
The "good part" starts at 2:00

I have had a couple of 28 reperfs with the automatic non-interfering
feed-out option but have always disabled it because I got annoyed while
trying to troubleshoot them - or because I am such a slow typist......

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

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> "monkey on a string" refers to the "crawling head" tape reader as part
> of the FRXD.  Officially called a "pivoted head" reader.  The read head
> can pull itself up the tape so as to read the very last character punched.
> Similar reader exists in the Model 28 line, believe it's the LAXD.
> The idea is so that you don't have to punch a bunch of feedout characters
> after the end of the message to allow the end of the message to pass
> completely through the reader, as is the case with more ordinary readers
> such as used in Model 19.  However a lot of Model 28 reperforators have
> an option called MNILFO   measured non-interfering letters feed out
> meaning that after the end of a message the reperf will punch a bunch of
> LTRS characters sufficient to get the end of the message through a
> nearby reader.  non-interfering means if new traffic starts coming in
> the reader will quit punching the feedout characters and punch the message
> characters.
>
>
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