[GreenKeys] Western Union Comment

[Jeffrey Angus]

On 4/24/19 10:15 PM, Jim Cooper wrote:
> As I recall a few hams tried to use them
> with tones over VHF without a lot of success ...
> plus they were actually rather messy and
> smelly -- the basic function was 'blasting away'
> the Teledeltos paper (lots of paper dust) with
> an electrical spark (lots of ozone in the air).
Around 1974, I went down to JJ Glass in Los Angeles and
bought 5 of them and a case of paper. As did friend of mine.

There was a mod to un-invert the image.
We spent many an hour of 2 meter simplex sending Don
Martin cartoons back and forth.

After we got bored with that, we picked up a pair of 1"
vidicon TV cameras. And got on the air on 70 cm. The
camera I had, had a turret with 4 lenses.

Heh, that was fun to. For a while. ;-)

Then I bought a Model 19 Teletype.


-- 
"I am a river to my people."
Jeff-1.0
WA6FWI
www.foxsmercantile.com