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From: John Orton
To: Tom Osborne
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] FSK origin
>Tom.
>Thanks for the information.
>I should have been more descriptive in asking the question, as >to
when it came to be.
HI John
I would think sometime after WW2. A lot of the old machines became
available through surplus suppliers after the war.
First machine I had was an old model 14 strip printer. You used to
have to time them to your 60 cycle house current, just like timing a
car. There was a tuning fork you could get to time the motor. The
motor had timing marks on it just like a car and you would thump the
tuning fork and look through it. When you could see the marks, like
the marks on a flywheel, you had the motor in time.
I had a model 15 made by, of all people, Hallicrafters company. Wayne
Green was the editor of CQ back in the 60's and he helped a lot to get
rtty going. I know when I got my licence in '54, rtty was going
strong then. 73
Tom W7WHY
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