Well Harold I am going to give it my best try.. I was hoping I would find a few on 20 meters, it was my favorite band back when I was using the model 19.. I had a homebrew transmitter back then

that I keyed FSK and ran a pair of 813 into a quad beam... I worked all over the world, thoroughly enjoying it.. I sure learned about duty cycle with amplifiers also then ha ha... Melted a few tank coils !!

Not sure about AFSK, only did that on VHF with a local group on FM... Used a 555 oscillator and keyed it between mark and space.. Wouldnt dare that on HF !!

I am using an old kenwood 520 so just might go into it and hook it into FSK, would be the easiest for me probably to get going... Skip

On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 8:10 PM Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys <greenkeys@mailman.qth.net> 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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