[GreenKeys] Introduction

[Gary Chatters WA9ZZZ]

Hello, Dave,

You got your novice license the same year I arrived in Ann Arbor as a 
student at UM.  I did have some contact with local hams and attended a 
few meetings of the Huron Valley ARC, but do not remember your callsign. 
  I was aware the Irv Hoff lived in the Ann Arbor area at the time, but 
never met him.

I got my first Teletype machine back when I was in high school.  It was 
a model 15 with 75 speed gears.  It took a while to figure that out and 
exchange them for 60 speed gears.

That machine came from the Michigan Bell telephone company.  Some hams 
had convinced the phone company to sell decommissioned Teletype machines 
to hams cheap.  That machine cost me $25, plus I had to sign a contract 
saying I wouldn't use it for commercial purposes, nor sell it.  (Don't 
really remember all the details.  It was something like that.)  Did you 
get any machines from them?

While a student at UM, I acquired a model 19 for the campus radio club 
and got us on RTTY.

73,
Gary
WA9ZZZ/3
ex-WA8ANI


On 11/16/18 6:09 PM, David Deatrick wrote:
> Greetings from Dave , WA8OLD
> I found a link for this reflector on the latest ARRL contest newsletter.
> My pedigree, I was first licensed  in 1964 as WN8OLD. In Ann Arbor, 
> Michigan.
> 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, 
> introduced us.
> He had 2 model 28 ASR’s. One was on full auto start . That was all it took.
> I was fascinated with RTTY . Had 2 model 15’s and a completely 
> functional Model 19.The only thing I have left is the platen crank. Plus 
> an old W2PAT TU homebuilt.
> 73 All
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