[GreenKeys] Historic Heavy Metal RTTY QSO

[Wa3frp]

Fun for me and in a sense historic too as this was my first QSO on my rebuilt 40M inverted V. A good shakedown for GKN!  Also, included in my TX setup was a TMC XFK-2 FSK Exciter that Nick and John K4OZY worked to get to me in 2009.  I think that adds 11 vacuum tubes tothe list.   Nick is too modest.  By the end of our QSO, Nick was fully utilizing his 28 ASR including typing to paper tape in the blind while reading my incoming text and then transmitting at tape speed.  Thanks 73Russ - WA3FRP
wa3frp at aol.com

i-Telex 834328 WUTMPAM CHIL

- Well, certainly historic for me. Even though I got my Novice license in
- 1961, I have never tried RTTY before.

- Russ (WA3FRP) and I (K4NYW) had a very nice long chat on 40 meters today.
- Both of us were using model 28ASR teletypes hooked up to vintage Navy
- transmitters. Russ was using his AN/FRT-24 and I was running my recently
- restored AN/FRT-70. That's a total of about 140 vacuum tubes and over 3000
- lbs of transmitting equipment - add in the 28ASRs, Russ's R-390A receiver,
- and other gear and we must have been in the 2 ton heavyweight class!

- I have a lot to learn about operating, remembering to hit LF, LTRS, and
- FIGS at the right time, etc. but it was great fun! We were also joined by
- Jerry KA0VEL who was running more modern gear, but he got a kick out of the
- M28 operation.

- This was only my 2nd RTTY QSO - the other was kind of accidental while I
- was testing the transmitter a few days ago - and that was the other
- fellow's first RTTY contact in 20 years so he was delighted to hear a M28
- on the air too.

- So, if my antenna doesn't fall down and the transmitter doesn't catch fire
- I think I'll be on the air for Green Keys Night. Well, Green Keys Day after
- I recover from the champagne.

- Many thanks to all the kind folks here who have given me so much help -
- Man, this Teletype gear is amazing.....and addictive.

- Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

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