[Milsurplus] Boehme tape machine printouts

[neil277 at juno.com]

Ralph,
>From the American side: I'm only familiar with the US  'RD-60'  inked tape recorder. If I remember correctly it was called undelator tape... maybe not. In the 60's it wasn't used to record CW, but was used as an analysis tool by the non-morse guys. It would have been burned after use each day. I don't believe it was sent back to a higher headquarters. I don't think it could follow high speed (burst) code. (The RD-60 was famous for throwing ink all over.)

But I was a maintenance man, not an op, so I'm not absolutely sure of all  their procedures. I was one of the items I first worked on in 1960.

I don't remember when they were withdrawn from use, but it was probably before the mid 70's... but maybe that was just where I got stationed

The NSA museum at Ft Meade Maryland might have some examples, but I cant think anyone else would have kept them.

Neil, N4SI
24 years - Army

> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:53:06 -0400
> From: Ralph Cameron <ramcam at magma.ca>
> Subject: [Milsurplus] Boehme tape machine printouts
> 
> Is there any museum that preserves some of the tapes printed by 
> the Boehme inked tape printers of Morse code? Were they used much 
> for reception at intercept sites?
> 
> Ralph Cameron
> VE3BBM
 

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