[GreenKeys] Introduction

[David Deatrick]

Very cool! I agree I had W2JTP ‘s book. As soon as I read my post true
father was not exactly what I meant mea culpa.
 Irv was a great promoter ofRTTY and helped me obtaining my machines.

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 20:33 Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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