[GreenKeys] Saw this at the nearfest hamfest

[Harold Hallikainen]

On Mon, May 1, 2023 7:05 pm, Skip Macaulay wrote:
> Hello Russ and thanks for the welcome.. Its been a long time since I was
> doing anything with RTTY, the introduction of the VIC20 back then kind of
> finished it off for me.. No body back then wanted to send
> a line feed and carriage return ha ha...  I wish I had never given my 19
> away back then but I hung onto my 28 for all these years..  It was
> actually
> watching Daniel Jones, K6YIC, on Youtube that sparked my
> interest in the old machines again.. Everytime I walked by the old 28 it
> was beckoning me ha ha.. I talked with Daniel and I got brave and hooked
> it
> all up... I was also very surprised when he told me about the ITTY
> signals on the internet, that blew me away.. Anyways the old gear fired
> right up and I was printing news on a very dried up ink ribbon.. So I am
> reworking a lot of scary circuitry I built 30 years ago and hope to get on
> HF again.
> RTTY was the most fun I have ever had in my ham hobby years.. I have
> echoed
> signals off the moon on all kinds of bands but the hammering of the RTTY
> machines I still find more fascinating!!  Skip
>

It would be great to see you back on HF RTTY. There are some autostart
frequencies at https://w6iwi.org/rtty/ that several of us use. I am on the
20 meter frequency pretty much all day every day.

Harold
https://w6iwi.org