[MRCG] [MMRCG] Clatternet East? Military RTTY

[Tim]

Hi Nick - Yep, the West Coast MRCG ran the more recent Clatternet for
several years but took last year off.  We have re-started it as of last
week, had 2 checkin's plus 2 receive stations on Saturday at 2300- 2345Z,
45 minutes before the MRCG military AM net convenes on 3985 kc.
We run the "military" protocol; 850 cps shift, Space high, 45 baud.  Window
frequency for now is 7087 kc.  Net/tuning  details:
http://www.mrcgwest.org/mrcg-radio-nets/

Jim, W6JVE in Fayetteville, AR was able to check in with us periodically in
the past so cross-country ops are possible.  We should hear you!

I am running a PRC-47/dipole with the CV 2455 RATT interface and a homebrew
loop-to-RS-232-to-loop converter. (No mech terminal here so I am using an
ancient AST laptop running DOS 3.0  (!)  as a glass terminal for now..)
Currently chasing the bugs out of the system so I am only able to receive
right now but TX should be back online shortly..  Now that we are all in
"The Brig" for awhile, time to dust off the RATT gear!

73, Tim
N6CC

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:30 PM Nick K4NYW <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> 170 shift should be OK - I think all I have to do is turn a knob or two on
> the CV-3510B TU. Navy HF standard was 850 shift (2000 cps center) but LF
> was 170 shift (1000 cps center).
> Hey, if it is legal I could patch in another TU and simulcast 170 on LSB
> and 850 on USB. Heh.
>
> The West Coast military guys run a weekly net at 850 shift.
> http://www.mrcgwest.org/mrcg-radio-nets/
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:14 PM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> due to the lack of interest last year when I was beating my head against
>> the wall working with the UGC-74 and the incredibly unwilling to be
>> modified MD-522A I packed up and sold my teletype stuff at Gilbert. However
>> I can fire up the Harris 350 and use MITTY and do teletype without tears
>> but don't know if that will count or not.
>> Dammit man now going to have to go out and round up more heavy floor
>> space eating hardware.
>> I was not able to find anyone running 850 Hz, the ham world is 170 Hz.
>> Can Navy East run 170 Hz? if not just tell me what tones you would prefer
>> being that sort of stuff is easy using a computer as opposed to trying to
>> do anything except what it was intended to do on the MD-522
>> At one point I had it set up with the UGC-74, MD-522 and GRC-106 and it
>> would talk to the Harris with the computer running MITTY but in order to do
>> any thing with others found the 170 Hz was the thing.
>>
>> Ray F/KA3EKH
>>
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>> *Subject:* [MMRCG] Clatternet East? Military RTTY
>>
>> OK, we've talked about this. I have finally fixed (I hope) my FRT-70
>> synthesizer issues and got set up for 850 shift, mark low operation. Does
>> anyone want to make a stab at a schedule sometime?
>> I was calling CQ today on the Clatternet West Channel - 7087 USB using a
>> 2 kc +/-425 cps tone, so 7088.575 kc mark, 7089.425 kc space.
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieca8hbCbC8
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick England K4NYW
>> www.navy-radio.com
>>
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