[R-1051] R-1051 Speakers

[Ray Fantini]

My idea is worse than that, It would involve 850Hz shift military sets. Thing is that I am real big on running the twin sister of the R-1051 the Army AN/GRC-106 and that was widely deployed as a RATT rig. Had a UGC-74 and MD-522A all wired up and ready to go although at the time it was tied into my Harris RF-350 but had a weird vision of running the VSC-2 mobile teletype package from the M151 that I have the 106 installed in.
Nick England is the one person that I know who has more military teletype then some small countries so thought if I can get him to buy in that guarantees at least big gun on the band and along with a half dozen or so others who have GRC-142 shelters that would give us all an excuse to play with them. Maybe we can get someone with the PRC-47 with the snap on modem or possibly if there was anyone out there with a complete AN/GRC-26 or a GRC-46 this would give them the opportunity to talk to someone on 850 Hz shift.
We got two three nets every Saturday including MMCG on 40 and MRCA on 60 that get good turnout for USB voice using military hardware but understand what you say about the difficulty of getting people to get on the air.

Ray F/KA3EKH


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From: r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-1051-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jim Haynes
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [R-1051] R-1051 Speakers

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

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