[R-1051] R-1051 Speakers

[Nick England]

Possibly 85Hz shift on 170Hz spacing - that was the usual military VFCT
(AN/UCC-1, etc) as well as commercial gear from Tele-Signal, etc.
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:19 AM paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> David a great write up and it follows my experience with the services..
> I decoded AP and UPI on HF then C band satellites. But as they went digital
> I essentially had no way or any details to homebrew a solution. That was
> the end of that.
> I really enjoyed the raw barely edited news feeds straight from the field.
> Use 2 X model 28 teletypes and lots of paper. Though not every day that
> would have been quite expensive even back then.
> The demods I would swear were 85 Hz but maybe they were 120. Its been a
> long time ago.
> I recall going to a UPI place in CT. and a fellow actually gave me several
> narrow band demods.
> They were a square box about 4 X 4 by 6 deep. Easily sat under a desk and
> had the current loop supply and all. The filter slipped in and out so you
> could use other channels.
> Longgggg time ago but certainly enjoyed the pre-internet news.
> Interestingly at that time there were no pop out adds in those feeds! It
> was just raw well written news.
>
> Regards
> Paul
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