[GreenKeys] Saw this at the nearfest hamfest

Wed May 3 21:53:28 EDT 2023

Hello Jim, well I am like you and miss the "old days" ..  Thats probably
why I am spending a bunch of time getting my old 28 going and eventually
want to get on HF to try and
make a few contacts..  Still working on rebuilding the old demodulator and
UART circuit then try to get it all hooked up to the old Kenwood HF radio..
I was going to try AFSK as it seems thats the common way now but I still
dont know how I am going to build that part.. Like I said before I might
just tear into the old Kenwood 520 and
do it the old fashioned way again, FSK.. I dont know if we could work you
all the way over to the Boston area but maybe on 20 meters when the band is
good etc.. I havent been on HF much
as I have been concentrating on EME for the last 10 years or so.. So the
RTTY thing will get me back on there hopefully..  When I get it all going I
will give out a holler here and see who I can scare up
for a possible contact...  Stay tuned.. Skip

On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 7:16 PM Jim <jim at w1jt.net> wrote:

> I too miss my RTTY days.   For me it was the 70's and 80's. I've had a
> number of machines...28's, 19's, 32's...and one 33.   I still have 3
> machines....
>
> Sometimes I sit up around 14.085 +/- and call CQ.....but I generally
> give up after a while.   I guess everyone or at least a lot of people
> have gone to the more exotic modes.   Full disclosure:  I must admit
> that I do enjoy a QSO on Olivia from time to time.....but I miss RTTY.
>
> Wondering....anyone on here want to do a sked?   At the moment I'm good
> on 20, 17 (does anyone EVER do RTTY on 17?), 15.....my SWR is high on 10
> and I've not really been on 12 except for a couple of CW contacts.
>
> Well, if you're thinking it might be fun and you want to give it a
> try....let me know.   I'm pretty much retired, got a small business that
> takes about 2 hours / day to run so I am pretty flexible on time.
>
> I'm just South of Boston MA.....so if you're interested.   Let me know.
>
> 73 all
>
> Jim W1JT
>
> On 5/1/23 22:10, Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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