[GreenKeys] What is Your Setup

[kn7sfz]

Tom.....when DO you find time to sleep! hahaha......😁😁

Richard kn7sfz


On 3/30/2021 9:29 AM, Tom Hunter wrote:
> Steve Bennett AD8CI,
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> After seeing Nick's setup I am almost embarassed to described mine.
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> Radio Building (100 feet from house):
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> 224.5 Repeater linked to 443.675 Repeater. (Antennas on 60 foot tower.)
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> 443.3 RTTY Repeater (Waiting to pickup some users.) I have set the time-out to 20 Minutes to accomadate the Autostart Channel. (Antenna on 40 foot tower)
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> 28 ASR (Waiting for work from my local TTY Repair-Ham)
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> An XP computer with 24-inch monitor for viewing Downloaded TTY manuals and also running MMTTY via mercury relay into the 60 Mil loop for testing TTY's. Networked over to house to copy downloaded manuals. (No Internet access)
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> Idle Line Motor Control for 28 ASR
> 12 VDV wall-wart on above wired over to House
> 60 Mil Loop supply also extended to House.
> 2-Icom Commercial radios (2-meter Simplex and a local 2-meter repeater. Speakers extended to house via 70V speaker lines.
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> Scanners for Boats on the nearby Monogahela River
> and Motorola Radio for trains running along the
> river (Both wired over to the house via 70V speaker lines.)
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> Cases of Roll paper and ribbons.
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> Old piepan and bottle of stamppad ink for re-inking ribbons.
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> Den in House: (Ham shack)
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> Speakers to listen to the scanners and 2-meter radios.
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> Speakers for monitoring voice and RTTY repeaters.
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> 28 ASR (table-top) on 60 Mil loop from Radio Building. Motor controled via a 12 VDC relay
> operated by the Motor Control in Radio Building)
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> Both 28's can  start together and can print the same thing.
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> 32 ASR (Waiting for 60 Speed gears from a friendly Greenkeyer.)
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> 2 IRL FSK 1000's (One on the bench, the other copying ITTY) via a mercury relay to the 60 Mil loop)
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> Dovetron which I cannot seem to get working.
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> Both the IRL and the Dovetron can be switched to my ICOM IC-735 HF Rig accesory jack via a Rolls 4-channer mixer. The 735 in turn has a 40 Meter dipole or 30 feet of wire in a buried plastic pipe. Often the underground antenna hears better. The only time I hear RTTY is on contest weekends.
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> I recently hooked it up to transmit from MMTTY.
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> XP Computer running MMTTY for tuning and for soft copy and transmitting from the IC-735.
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> Another XP computer running MMTTY with a mercury relay for testing. It can also key an Icom 221S UHF radio on my RTTY repeater frequency (Both transmit and receive) The radio has a fan controlled via relay by the fan control on the repeater.
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> 2nd Dovetron waiting to be hooked up and tested.
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> Uncounted Icom and Baofeng HT's.
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> A workbench. I won't even get into the test equipment.
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> Row of old Dell computers mostly XP.
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> A CV-483 TU on the bench with one bad power supply waiting for time to work on it.
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> I hope soon to have a Hamshack Hotline phone.
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> Dining Room:
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> Window 7 Computer  with Firefox to copy ITTY (Thank you ITTY) and to download manuals, (Thank you navy-radio.com) and MMTTY for local copy on ITTY.
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> The soundcard feeds a Leixen VV-898 with VOX and running 4 watts into my RTTY Repeater for the Auto start Channel. It gets hot enough that I have also added a fan contolled by remote relay from the fan control on the repeater.
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> Scanners to monitor Voice and RTTY repeaters with VU meters Connected to speakers in the den and to  the Radio Building via 70V speaker lines to speaker & VU meter panels in the racks above each repeater(s).
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> All computers are on the non-internet network
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> I run 3 networks - the Blue-wired network (to all my computers) with no internet access, the gray-wired network with direct internet access (only to internet computers) and the yellow-wired network with intenet access through a wireless router (to select computers. and all wireless devices)
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> I have probaly forgotten a few things.
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> Tom N3CRK
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