Re: [RTTY] Spaces at end of exchange (please)

[Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>]

Things were a lot more complicated then with strip printers (one ling 
piece of paper about 1" wide with all the characters printed on it :-)  
Polar relays, Mainline TU's, 850 shift, and calling CQ RTTY on CW to 
instigate a QSO, and then ID'ing on CW to keep the FCC happy.
Saturday picture net was also lots of fun.  Saw lots of Playboy bunnies 
come across on RTTY :-) 73
Tom W7WHY




On 9/8/2014 6:51 AM, Hank Garretson wrote:
> I love it. I remember. Those were the days.
>
> Even these days, my XYL sometimes asks me who this LID guy is that I keep
> yelling out during contests that I want to have carnal relations with.
>
> 73,
>
> Hank, W6SX
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:10 AM, Art (K5FNQ) <k5fnq@lusfiber.net> wrote:
>
> Hank - that reminds me of one of my Elmers, Pappy Conley W5UY, who, I
> > understand was one of the early RTTY operators.
> >
> > We used to visit his shack in the 1960's (S Line with home brew KW Amp and
> > KSR Model 28).
> > He would be in an RTTY QSO and the other operator would send a bunch of
> > CR/LF and his paper would jump up a bunch.
> > He would emit an expletive deleted and roll the paper back down so as not
> > to waste it.
> >
> > Art K5FNQ
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