Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
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Ah yes - TTY.

My Dad had one of those in his basement when I was still learning
basic radio electronics.

I can remember that thing pounding away when he talked to his buddies
who were still in the service and at sea.



Speaking of RTTY, I was the first legal ASCII station on ham radio in the
4th call district. A bunch of us ol teletypers, one in each call district,
were bound determined to be the first on ASCII and met on 14.110 Mhz in the
"Canadian Phone Band" for the event. 15 seconds before it was legal, we
started frantically calling CQ, all at once, on 110 baud ASCII for 60
seconds, making us number ones for our district. Before that event, hams
were only allowed to use 60 wpm BAUDOT teletype code because the government
bureaucrats wouldn't let us have any system they had no way of monitoring,
still afraid we were sending secret messages to U-boats and the Luftwaffe
offshore.

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