Something simple, with a header like:

----- COMBINED MMRCG / CLATTERNET BULLITEN-----

1 THE FOLLOWING STATIONS ACTIVE LAST WEEK ON THE MMRCG RATT NET:

K4ABC W3ABC …….

2 THE FOLLOWING STATIONS ACTIVE LAST WEEK ON THE CLATTERNET:

K6ABC W6ABC …….

3 OFF NET ACTIVITES:

DAYTON HAMVENTION IS 26 WEEKS AWAY / MRCA GILBERT 45 WEEKS / KA3EKH AA83 FIELD OPERATION IN 50 WEEKS

4 OTHER NEWS:

K4ABC NOW OPPERATING MECHINICAL TELETYPE MODEL 28 / W6ABC HAS BECOME ACTIVE AND SOON HOPES TO HAVE PRC 47 OPPERATIONAL FOR RTTY

NNNNN

That’s something of an outline, maybe between one to two hundred words maximum. Figure you can do 300 characters in five minutes so would try to stay below 1000 to 1200 characters total and that would give a run time of around ten minutes. Some people would consider running there transmitter flat out for ten or fifteen minutes an issue but think there are those among us who would consider that a challenge!

If people want to send me the information I can write it up in a transmittable format, just don’t have the capability of doing paper tape. Maybe can do a batch file and run it from a computer as a macro in MMTTY? I know that I can do limited text messages and assign them to a F key.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nick K4NYW via groups.io
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2022 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: MRCA <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MMRCG] Clatternet 1800Z Saturday 22NOV22

Sure. I have enjoyed copying Ron’s Signal Corps training messages on the East coast net and Daniel has begun transmitting the ADM Nimitz message of the day. 

We could run an artwork tape, but that would take up the entire hour of the net. 

What sort of message did you have in mind, Ray?

Nick K4NYW 

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:34 AM Ray Fantini <[email protected]> wrote:

Wonder what the possibility would be of doing a “Broadcast” type announcement and distributing it to a couple of the key stations before the net?  NCS can at some point play the file during the net. Before anyone pisses and moans about this being a one way communications or similar to broadcasting, or being retransmission of third party traffic I think it can be simply a type of bulletin text with information being of interest to operators of obsolete military technology (850Hz RTTY) and in that way be just as legal as any of the ARRL bulletins.

What the hell, back in the days of packet use to do third party stuff, list of things for sale and everything else, hard to imagine back thirty years doing 1200 baud packet that many years from that point would de evolve to the point of running mechanical teleprinters and 45.5 baud!

The mechanics for doing this can be sending a email to the two NCS and having them punch a paper tape and at some point during the net they would play it. I know this all exist with web pages, tweets and everything else but don’t care, nothing beats watching the teletype machine sitting there and spiting out a long message.

Ray F/KA3EKH