[GreenKeys] excessive line feed suppression

[Nick England]

The CR-LF mod is talked about here.
http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/stuntbox-rtty-7005.pdf

As Ken says, Irv also mentions using the stunt box to suppress multiple
line feeds but provides no details.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 1:33 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Irv wrote several articles in RTTY Journal on stuntbox modifications.
> I don't remember if he wrote up the one you are talking about, and
> I no longer remember the details of how it worked.
>
> One of his articles was about disabling the blankety-blank keyboard
> lock, and disabling the motor stop on FIGS-H (or was it FIGS-BLANK-H?)
> I think another one was about installing the automatic carriage return
> and line feed parts.  That was a desirable feature to have on any
> machine being used in radio work, since a missed CR or LF would obliterate
> a whole line of print.
>
> The one you are talking about was a result of the 80 meter autostart net
> that operated on the West Coast.  Some of the participants objected to the
> way Irv tended to monopolize use of the frequency by his long-winded
> transmissions.  So some joker called up Irv's machine and sent it a whole
> bunch of line feeds to spew the paper all over the floor.
>
> The defense was to have the auto CR-LF parts installed, then to make some
> other changes in the stunt box.  One removed the LF function bar and
> substituted a CR function bar, so that a single CR would cause both
> CR and LF and LFs would be ignored.  Then there was some arrangement to
> block multiple CRs from causing multiple LFs.
>
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