[R-1051] R-1051 Speakers

[Jim Haynes]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Ray Fantini wrote:

> You know all this is getting back to what we talked about a couple 
> months back and setting up a 850Hz Military style RTTY net and putting 
> some of this stuff back to work.  Unfortunately I sold off my MD-522 and

There is a West Coast military RTTY net called Clatternet.  I used to
check in with them from here in Arkansas, but the frequency and time were
not very good for that path and at the same time for their local 
operation, so things have changed and I haven't kept up with them.
I was using a software modem, but someone was using a PRC-47 with the
FSK adapter and it worked surprisingly well.  (surprising for such a
simple modem)

Some years ago I tried to promote a Green Key Night (pun on the ARRL
Straight Key Night) and I had it on Feb 22 being the anniversary of
when the FCC first permitted FSK operation on the CW portion of all
the HF ham bands.  Never got any participation to speak of - when I
would talk about it I felt like Linus going door to door telling
people about the Great Pumpkin.

A year or two ago someone else on the greenkeys mailing list proposed
a Green Key Night and I think it was on New Year's at the same time as
Straight Key Night.  I didn't try to participate, don't know how well
it worked out.  Seemed to me that competing with SKN was a mistake.

Jim W6JVE