[GreenKeys] Tape loops

[Don Cunningam]

Jim,
Boy, that brings back memories.  We did many loops like that on USS 
Edson DD 946 too. I was RM2 on that for some time.   A loop of line 
feeds would often get an answer from the shore station if you had been 
trying for a LONG time trying to get them the normal way and they were 
obviously ignoring you :-)
Don, WB5HAK

On 1/24/2021 9:25 PM, james wrote:
> So true. I made many tapes that way.
> Jim Flowers, Radioman 2nd
> USS Ozbourn DD 846
> NBCC
> WB7RKK
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 24, 2021, at 11:46, Ralph Irish <w8roi at wowway.com 
> <mailto:w8roi at wowway.com>> wrote:
>
>> Making tape loops can also be done with the TD, if one is careful and 
>> cautious
>> to 'bump' the tape forward, one character at a time.  Tape loops were 
>> made before
>> the Tape Splicer was available.
>>
>> A few LTRS characters at each end of the tape, carefully overlapped and
>> cautiously put into the TD, then 'bump' the TD forward, one character 
>> at a
>> time until the chads seat themselves into the holes comfortably.  Maybe
>> a tiny amount of glue at the 'overlap point' to reduce the chances of 
>> the 'loose
>> ends' getting snagged on something.
>>
>> We made lots of loop tapes when I was in the Navy and I never saw a 
>> splicer
>> until I'd been into Teletype as a ham, for a decade or more.  We had 
>> a 14KTR
>> monitoring the Fleet Broadcast, along with two 28KSRs and we had few
>> problems keeping up with incoming traffic.
>>
>> The tape loops got used in other aspects of communications operations 
>> on the
>> USS Hancock.  (aka  NWLD  and "Rampage")
>>
>> Later on we had a 28KTR available which made things a lot easier to 
>> keep up
>> with incoming traffic.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
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