[GreenKeys] Houston - 28 ASR and 28 ROTR available

[Kevin H. Phillips]

I was able to make contact with this nice gentleman and picked up these 
two machines yesterday afternoon.  I was able to coax my wife into going 
along to help by promising to attend a plant sale with her earlier in 
the day.  Collecting Teletypes often involves trade-offs, I guess.  The 
gentleman is a mechanical engineer who did not have an interest in the 
machines himself but recognized them as being marvelous works and 
thought they were worth saving from the trash bin.  Naturally, I thanked 
him profusely for saving them.


I haven't had time to examine them thoroughly but I am hopeful that the 
28ASR will be "plug and play" since it is in such good shape 
internally.  It does not seem dried out or rusted.  It is also 
remarkably clean on the inside.  The keys have quite a bit of the 
whitish "fungus" on them.  Its background was unknown other than it 
apparently came from the estate of some high-ranking Naval officer.  The 
cabinet does seem to have a slightly more "blue" tint than the usual 
Western Union green.


I took a few closer pictures of the electronic boards that were "under 
the hood" plus the control panel.  I can't tell anything about this but 
my guess is that it was perhaps designed as a built-in electronic TU.  A 
lot of the wires (practically like hairs) have pulled loose so I doubt 
this can be restored to its original function and also since there's no 
documentation on it. The control panel was very well done.  You can see 
that it seems to have had some sort of speed selector for both 60wpm and 
100wpm.  The switch marked "CW" is a momentary switch so I would guess 
it was for CW-I.D.  On one board I can see the lettering "7490" which 
makes me wonder if this was frequency-specific.


I will post more pictures perhaps later today.  I have not examined the 
ROTR yet.


73


Kevin

W5TTY

On 3/12/2022 2:34 PM, Nick England wrote:
> Some photos at
> https://www.navy-radio.com/misc/28-houston/
>
> I know nothing more other than he says
> " If you know of anyone who is looking for one please send this along.
>   I'd even be willing to donate to a good cause."
>
> Contact David Jochim DJochim at lhrtech.com <mailto:DJochim at lhrtech.com>
>
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> GreenKeys mailing list
> Home:http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
> Help:http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post:mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>
>>>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham's GreenKeys Search Tool:https://teletype.net/gksearch
>>>> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive:http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/
>>>> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive:http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html
>>>> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool:http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html
> This list hosted by:http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list:http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered tokh-phillips at 9-5usa.org

-- 
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20220319/51b95d50/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_5220.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 103908 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20220319/51b95d50/attachment-0004.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_5221.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 135241 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20220319/51b95d50/attachment-0005.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_5222.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 172441 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20220319/51b95d50/attachment-0006.jpe>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_5224.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 88146 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20220319/51b95d50/attachment-0007.jpe>