[RTTY] FW: Real RTTY (AKA RTTY The Hard Way)

[Don Hill AA5AU]

Rex has given me permission to forward this email to the RTTY reflector for anyone interested. He is currently restoring a Creed 444 teleprinter. He has started a Yahoo group for those interested in mechanical RTTY.

 

He can be contacted here:

 

g8ubj.io91uj at googlemail.com

 

73, Don AA5AU

 

From: R A Lester [mailto:g8ubj.io91uj at googlemail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2017 3:16 AM
To: SHARES Club; w3iz at arrl.org; Thomas youngberg; Ian Keyser; Ing. Miloš Prostecký; Pete.Milsom; Don Hill AA5AU; DonJ Taylor; Frank Costa; john kitchens; zs6gav at codamail.co.za; VU3UPZ
Subject: Real RTTY (AKA RTTY The Hard Way)

 




All
This week I completed constructions of a double current magnet driver for the Creed 444 so I wired up the machine and got it working in local mode. The reperforator wasn't working (The punch withdrawing bracket was not engaged). A little TLC and lubrication and the punch now works so I can make punch tapes RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYR :)

I have to say that having lubricated everything the machine is really working well!

 

I fitted a high brightness led and 4.7k resistor in place of the end of line neon. That works off the +12V on the tongue without disturbing local copy.

 

The next (and hopefully last) teleprinter issue I encountered was a broken pecker lever in the tape reader so now I can make tapes but not read them properly. So thats one last thing for me to fix (either obtain or make a replacement part)

All said and done this has been a challenging but enjoyable project.

I have started a yahoo Group for those interested in mechanical RTTY, it seemed like an idea to post information and ideas on the subject as there may be others around the world interested in doing this.

If you're interested in mechanical RTTY and the machines you can see the posts and pictures etc here https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Real_RTTY/info

Not so much there at the moment but I'm sure more photos and information can be collected as we go.

 

VY 73 and happy new Year to all

Rex G8UBJ


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