[GreenKeys] Preliminary results for RTTY Roundup posted

[Bill Abate]

Russ,

You really brought back a lot of memories with the FRT-24 
and W3CRO.  Dick was a good friend of mine back in the 
sixties and seventies.  I admired his FRT and was sad when 
he told me he wanted to sell it.  I remember his 28ASR and 
pair of SP600s for diversity reception.  He helped me 
rebuild my model 15 and then my 19.  Eventually I graduated 
to a 28ASR.  I could have never done any of it without him. 
  A lot of great memories!  I bought his homebrew Electrocom 
FSC250.  Together with the commercial multi pole audio 
filters made a fantastic demodulator.  A step up from my DT600.

Dick was a selfless super tech with teletype machines which 
went back to his time with Bell Telephone.  He does not get 
the credit he deserves for helping so many get into teletype.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

73,

Bill, K3PGB

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>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:23:02 -0500
>From: WA3FRP <wa3frp at aol.com>
>To: Ralph Mowery <rmowery28146 at earthlink.net>
>Cc: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Preliminary results for RTTY Roundup posted
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>Hi Ralph,
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>The two racks that stand behind me in that photo is a Collins FRT-24 that includes a Collins T-440 with an Eimac 4-1000A as the final, runs 3 - 30 MC with 10 channel autotune originally built for the US Navy in the 1950s.  While I use this TX almost exclusively on RTTY, the TX is also capable of high speed CW and AM using a a pair of Eimac 4-400A s as the modulator.  I got this TX from Dick, W3CRO SK, a RTTY pioneer, when he got out of ham radio in 1974.
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>73
>Russ WA3FRP 
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