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1. [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:39:24 -0700
Hey all you OT RTTY op's, check out this video. Brigs back some good memoires!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9LWUIWvpU&feature=related 73 Tom W7WHY _______________________________________________
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00042.html (6,401 bytes)

2. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Eric - VE3GSI" <ve3gsi@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:59:22 -0400
Yah know, I don't miss the sound of the carriage rattling around and as I remember the smell of the oil at all, but for some reason, I do miss the sound of the bell. Thanks for the video link Tom, it
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00046.html (7,629 bytes)

3. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:23:50 -0700
Fascinatng. I hadn't realized how mechanically complex the old printers were. Any idea what one cost brand new? They must have been very expensive. 73, Bill W6WRT ____________________________________
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00048.html (7,741 bytes)

4. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Roger Cooke <g3ldi@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:35:29 +0000 (GMT)
It sure does bring back memories! I had a Creed 7B in the early 60's and luckily I also had a silence cover. However, it has always amazed me how clever the guys were that designed these pieces of eq
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00049.html (9,327 bytes)

5. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Gedking@aol.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:35:05 EDT
If you can't hear the rattle of the keys and smell the oil it ain't really RTTY Hmmm we need the bell in the RTTY programs. To get their attention??? ED K8OT **Psssst...Have you heard the news? There
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00050.html (7,633 bytes)

6. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Gedking@aol.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:39:49 EDT
You just gotta hear an ASR28 running at One hundred WPM "WOW WEE" ED K8OT **Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com.
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00051.html (7,545 bytes)

7. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Brian <shortckts@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:52:04 -0700
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but I don't miss the racket. In the Navy, I worked in a Communications Center where there were so many mechanical TTYs running continuously that OSHA came in
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00052.html (7,961 bytes)

8. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Ekki Plicht (DF4OR)" <ep@plicht.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:17:42 +0200
That reminds me... In preparation for a contest I lubricated an old Lorenz LO15. And I had no silence cover... Returning after the contest my girlfriend asked my if I had grown freckles. Most of the
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00053.html (8,261 bytes)

9. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Sidney Grimes <sidgrimes@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:24:07 -0700 (PDT)
Brian is absolutely right. I am a retired senior chief Radioman. I suffer from tinnitus which my audiologist said was most likely caused by long term exposure to the mechanical RTTY machines and also
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00054.html (9,368 bytes)

10. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Junior" <charlesw_anderso@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:15:42 +0100
Brian, I worked in the relay center for a while. 8 machines on the fleet bcst, 4 on the nato relay ckts, 2 on pt to pt embassy ckt's and 3 to 4 single channel to carrier's, tin cans, a pony loop to c
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00055.html (9,816 bytes)

11. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "John Holmes" <w9ily@arrl.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:36:37 -0500
Thanks for the post, Tom. It does bring back memories of the UPI (remember UPI?) and AP teletype printers in the commercial radio stations where I worked. I think the Model 24 on youtube is a LOT fas
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00056.html (8,188 bytes)

12. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:26:49 -0700
Several years ago a few of us RTTY nuts organized a high-speed RTTY contest just to see what would happen. The general consensus was that with multipath and flutter, the data losses were higher and m
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00058.html (8,883 bytes)

13. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Artmouton" <k5fnq@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:09:53 -0500
Brain - you might remember the controversy when the Feds made the commercial TTY operators cease their annual Christmas message that utilized the bell to play Christmas Carols? From what I remember t
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00060.html (10,149 bytes)

14. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: R Johnson <k1vu@tmlp.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:52:49 -0400
How about a "RTTY Aroma Candle" ??? That should solve the oil problem. 73 Bob, K1VU _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/m
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00062.html (9,086 bytes)

15. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:54:02 -0700
Well, that probably could happen, but how about the boys who wore earphones and copied code all day. I's sure the guns going off probably ruined an eardrum or 2 also :-) Back years ago, hearing prot
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00063.html (8,698 bytes)

16. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:05:49 -0400
It wasn't the "red phone" ... multiple bell signals were used on the wire service networks as the early version of what is now the Emergency Broadcast Network. I can't remember for sure - it was mor
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00064.html (12,141 bytes)

17. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: "Junior" <charlesw_anderso@bellsouth.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:41:47 +0100
We had a fleet flash net at one duty location. When flash traffic ( Z ) would come in the bell would go off about 20 times alerting you to high precedence traffic. I forget the model of the machine(s
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00067.html (11,206 bytes)

18. Re: [RTTY] Ahh, the sound!! (score: 1)
Author: Gedking@aol.com
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:50:58 EDT
That reminds me when in the Signal corps stationed at camp Darby near Livorno, Italia "Leghorn" in 54-55 before becoming repair chief at the Xmitter site I was an operator and we worked a rotating sh
/archives//html/RTTY/2008-09/msg00068.html (8,206 bytes)


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