[GreenKeys] autostart nets and unattended Rx?

[valerie zeiser]

The autostart net was quite successful.

We had two things going for us:

   o Crystal-controlled transmitters and receivers.

   o Phase-locked loop TUs.

   o WRUs.

There were several stations that were quite fanatical
about being smack-dab on frequency. Fortunately they
had rock-solid (read: crystal) frequency. Also,
they had a Who-Are-You - so you could "PING" them,
and when their station responded you could zero-beat
their signal an "wallah" you were on the channel.

Also, some of us used phase-locked loop T.U.s - which
would track a signal quite well.

regards,
W6ESE - exWA2EAA
NNNNZCZC
Eugene Hertz wrote:
> Howdie.  
> 
> Been reading about autostart nets and was very curious about something. I've been copying a midwest rtty net evenings (couldnt seem to coppy w1aw either tues, weds this week) with my harris rf-590H, info-tech m600 with built in loop supply and my model 28KSR and its been wonderful!
> 
> What I notice sometimes, is I cannot always produce perfect copy on some of the stations on the net, and find I have to sometimes tweak my freq or bfo.  And I was wondering, when autostart nets were popular, I can't imagine leaving a tube radio on all night long with the tty in the basement awaiting its selcal signal and expect it to get good copy unattended!? I seem to be doing quite a little bit of tweaking with a very stable modern receiver. Back in the 60's 70's 80's I gotta figure that transmitters would drift somewhat and receivers would drift somewhat making unattended reception very difficult?
> 
> How successful were these autostart nets with unattended receiving?
> 
> Eugene
> 
> 
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