[GreenKeys] What brought you here?

Tue Apr 7 20:39:40 EDT 2020

Russ 

Great story. One thing, though. The TT/L-2 Terminal Unit was a design by Keith Petersen, W8SDZ. 
The TT/L was an earlier design by Hoff. The TT/L-2 had some additional circuitry which improved 
copy. 

Later, Hoff designed the "ST" series of TUs, the ST-3; ST-5; and ST-6. 

Petersen kept the TT/L-2 design up to date with a number of mods and add-ons, over the following 
3 or 4 years after the initial publication in RTTY Journal in Sept 1967. 

Petersen and Dusty Dunn, W8CQ, the Publisher of the RTTY Journal were even closer neighbors. 
Both lived in Royal Oak, MI back in the 1970s. 

Petersen became a SK a few years back. He lived just a few miles from me and we saw him a lot 
at local club meetings and swaps, etc. W8CQ became SK several years before Petersen. 

Petersen was a TV engineer at some station in Toledo,Ohio and later at Channel 2 in Detroit, 
WJBK-TV which was a CBS affiliate there for many years. Later became a FOX Network station. 

Thanks for 'your story' . 

Ralph - W8ROI 

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From: "Russ Miller" <wa3frp at gmail.com> 
To: "Jeff G" <jeffg at junknet.net> 
Cc: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 7:57:58 PM 
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] What brought you here? 

I was a ham in College and active on 15M and 10M using SSB. One day, in 1967, our Amateur Radio Club (W3ABT) President came to me and showed me a Teletype Model 19 that had been donated to the school by Bell of Pennsylvania. We sort of got permission to capture the Model 19 and spirit it up to the station. QST had some things about RTTY but not much. We built a W2JAV converter and added a muffin fan to sit on top of the 6146s in the Club's TX. Once we were on the air, I was in heaven and started to work as much DX as I could. We discovered RTTY Journal. The first issue we got (September 1967) featured the W6FFC Mainline TT/L-2 FSK Demodulator. Worked more DX! Got WAC RTTY #106 and a nice mention from John W3KV in RTTY Journal. Met so many great people on-the-air including: 
I1KG, ON4BX, ON4CK, G6JF and so many more. Everyone was very helpful. Locally, retired Bell of PA employee Dick W3CRO and famous ARRL traffic handler Mae W3CUL organized a local RTTY group that met in National Park, NJ, across the river from Philadelphia. 

Graduation day was approaching and I interviewed with Western Union and got a job as the resident engineer in the Philadelphia Telex exchange. My focus changed from Teletype machines to Teletype systems. The Telex exchange occupied most of the 4th floor but the second floor had a huge paper tape reperf system. It occupied the entire floor. By the middle 1970s, I got more responsibilities and helped installed the new ITT CSR-4 Telex exchange, replacing the Siemens & Halske TW-39, in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Along the way, in 1974, W3CRO decided to get out of ham radio and get into electric organs (go figure) and sold me his Collins FRT-24. Got married! Stored the FRT-24. No time for ham radio. Marriage. Work. Kids. Fast forward to 2004 when I left Siemens Medical and decided to get back to ham radio and RTTY. Discovered almost no one used Teletype machines. Culture Shock! Found Greenkeys... felt better. Started working DX and contests. Still using my ancient gear including the FRT-24, R-390A, ST-6 and M28ASR. 

73 Russ WA3FRP 

On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 1:45 PM Jeff G < jeffg at junknet.net > wrote: 

I'm sure this has been done in the past, but figured I'd ask as I'm a bit of a newb here and it would give me something to read. What got you into Teletypes, and ultimately to Greenkeys? Can be a simple answer or a short story! 

For me...I always had an interest in them, and I'm into vintage computing amongst many many many other hobbies. I acquired a Teletype Model 32 and HAL ST-6 last year, and its been a learning experience to learn about the history, how they work, current loops, baudot, etc. I'd love to get a 33 some day, and (hopefully) have lines on a couple older models as well now, as I LOVE the old/steampunk/electromechanical aspect of them, and have several older items displayed in my living room, like an Edison cylinder player (Edison Triumph). That said I'm probably a youngin at 42. 

I'm also a new-ish ham (licensed in 2016) and definitely want to try RTTY, outside of a contest. Also just before the s--- hit the fan, I started volunteering on the Battleship NJ and aimed to help them get some of their TTY stuff going again. 

Jeff KC3GJX 
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