[GreenKeys] Introduction

[Jim Haynes]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, David Deatrick wrote:

> I was a friend of one of the true fathers of amateur RTTY,  Irv Hoff, K8DKC.
> He was an amazing guy, a United Pilot and his house was filled with
> machines. My dad, a Doctor, not a ham, but a FAA medical examiner,

Welcome to the group.  Not to detract from Irv's contributions, but he
was rather a latecomer to RTTY.  When you talk about the "true fathers",
well there were the New York area bunch, W2BFD John Williams, W2JAV Phil
Catona, W2JTP Byron Kretzman, and W2NSD Wayne Green among others.  On
the West Coast W6AEE Merrill Swan, W6OWP Forrest Bartlett, W6NRM Bob
Weitbrecht who was temporarily in Wisconsin as W9TCJ and a bunch of 
others.  W6AEE was the original publisher of the little magazine RTTY
which became a de facto national RTTY publication, and that dates back
to 1953.  The New York bunch published their ARTS bulletin more 
irregularly but earlier.  CQ magazine published RTTY articles as early
as 1951, and a sort of forerunner in 1946.