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	My Early Days on RTTY
	I first became interested in RTTY during my Army days in the early 70's. I enlisted in the Army Security Agency which was the electronic surveillance part of the Army at that time. After learning Morse code in "Ditty City" at Ft. Devens, MA, I was slated for Teletype Intercept  Op. school. It was at Ft.Devens that I was exposed to Ham Radio at the MARS station where some of us went to practice CW on our own. From there I was assigned more training in ASA Special Project #1. It was doing that job that I actually started to communicate with RTTY using model 28's. My first Ham RTTY contact was on November 26, 1978 with WA9HCZ (SK) a local Ham and Elmer. I miss the smell of the old canary yellow paper and oil, and the sound of the machines. At some point when I have more room, I would like to have at least one machine clunking away in the corner of the shack. There are already many pages on RTTY and other Digital Modes, so instead of re-inventing the wheel I will try to compile links to the best pages that I have found and list them here for your reference. Here is some of my original RTTY gear. Teletype Model 15 KSR Page Printer Teletype Model 14 Typing Reperf. Teletype Model 14 TD Transmitter Distributor Teletype Loop Supply Data Technology Associates DT-600 Demodulator Data Technology Associates DU-200 Universal UART and SELCOM Board AK-1 AFSK generator Below is listed RTTY related links. I hope you find them useful and interesting. Here are some sites on the history of the Teletype Machine. http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html AA5AU Don Hill's RTTY web page just keeps getting bigger and better. Don has information on getting started using MMTTY to information on WRITELOG the best contest logging software and much much more. MMTTY  by Mako Mori has got to be the best stand alone RTTY software out there. It's RTTY engine is used in other multi-mode programs and can be used in with WRITELOG instead of a hardware TU. Check out Mako's other great software while visiting this web site. RTTY.com Devoted to the RTTY enthusiast. Link to W5JBO RTTY Links Link to W5JBO RTTY Software Links   Search WWW Search w9gm.com Top

My Early Days on RTTY

    I first became interested in RTTY during my Army days in the early 70's. I enlisted in the Army Security Agency which was the electronic surveillance part of the Army at that time. After learning Morse code in "Ditty City" at Ft. Devens, MA, I was slated for Teletype Intercept  Op. school. It was at Ft.Devens that I was exposed to Ham Radio at the MARS station where some of us went to practice CW on our own. From there I was assigned more training in ASA Special Project #1. It was doing that job that I actually started to communicate with RTTY using model 28's. My first Ham RTTY contact was on November 26, 1978 with WA9HCZ a local Ham and Elmer.

I miss the smell of the old canary yellow paper and oil, and the sound of the machines. At some point when I have more room, I would like to have at least one machine clunking away in the corner of the shack.

There are already many pages on RTTY and other Digital Modes, so instead of re-inventing the wheel I will try to compile links to the best pages that I have found and list them here for your reference.

Here is some of my original RTTY gear.

• Teletype Model 15 KSR Page Printer

• Teletype Model 14 Typing Reperf.

• Teletype Model 14 TD Transmitter Distributor

• Teletype Loop Supply

• Data Technology Associates DT-600 Demodulator

• Data Technology Associates DU-200 Universal UART and SELCOM Board

• AK-1 AFSK generator

Below is listed RTTY related links. I hope you find them useful and interesting.

Here are some sites on the history of the Teletype Machine.

• http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.html

AA5AU Don Hill's RTTY web page just keeps getting bigger and better. Don has information on getting started using MMTTY to information on WRITELOG the best contest logging software and much much more.

MMTTY  by Mako Mori has got to be the best stand alone RTTY software out there. It's RTTY engine is used in other multi-mode programs and can be used in with WRITELOG instead of a hardware TU. Check out Mako's other great software while visiting this web site.

RTTY.com Devoted to the RTTY enthusiast.
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Link to WA6BOB RTTY Software Links

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