[GreenKeys] Army RTTY Incident

[Tom Hunter]

In the middle 1960's, The Army trained me as a cook and sent me to Fort
Riley, Kansas. (By the way, the very best cook there was a former
helicopter pilot.)

I managed to talk my way into electronics and ended up at the receiver
site. My first experience there was tuning in a RTTY signal. ( I had
already spent a couple years at home copying RTTY off the air.) I had a
heck of a time tuning in the other station with an unfamiliar receiver.
Eventually I realized our own transmitter was still operating on the
simplex frequency. I told the guy at the com center he needed to turn our
transmitter off to receive. His response was the he had copied a little bit
(Without a clue that what he copied came from the receiver site.)

He did start unkeying the transmitter. I guess things worked better. But
that was almost 60 years ago.The only thing I remember clearly was that
guy's stupidity.


Tom   N3CRK
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