[GreenKeys] 4/1 and the XASR

[Don Cunningam]

Joe,

Look carefully at the picture in the link, and then this one.  The 
original article has two ASR's not the three in this shot!  Either one 
would have been very uncomfortable for two ops, but I guess not bad if 
really just one.  Our ship, USS Edson (DD-946) in 197o/71 had three 
ASR's lined up in a row on one bulkhead in the TTY room tied to crypto 
boxes for outgoing traffic.  That was tight enough for my taste with  
three full ASR's!!  Most of the incoming was on the "Fleet Broadcast", 
and we had to take the copy from one of the RO's in the TTY room that 
copied 24/7.  Good old days, but the ship is now a museum ship in Bay 
City, MI and all that is no longer on board, naturally.  I didn't check 
out the crypto room, but will if that room is even there now when I can 
get back up there one day to see her again.
73,
Don, WB5HAK

On 4/1/2021 12:07 PM, Joe Clanin wrote:
> Greenkeyers,
>
> Today is as good a day as any to ask: There has been some discussion 
> of this on the list before, but not a whole lot. Is the "28 XASR" 
> described here 
> http://www.rtty.com/development/teletype/model-28s/model-28s.htm 
> <http://www.rtty.com/development/teletype/model-28s/model-28s.htm> a 
> real machine? An elaborate joke? The picture is rather suspiciously 
> constructed...
>
> In the spirit of today's date, has anyone seen an XXASR (pictured 
> below) in the wild?
> XXASR.png
>
> Happy 4/1,
>
> Joe
>
>
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