[GreenKeys] 14,075 autostart (mid 70's)

[gil smith]

Hi Roy:

Thanks for the interesting story, especially for those of us who were not 
part of those good old days of rtty.

But I wouldn't be too hard on HoffNet.  It may indeed be difficult to reach 
critical mass for a real radio net now, but I am encouraged about the 
internet stuff that George started.   It's just a different medium for 
transmission.  An interactive version, where we could log in (or telnet in 
or something), may indeed be able to emulate a radio network.  Maybe even 
using all the same selcal and autostart stuff defined for HoffNet 
previously.  Hmm...

gil



At 12:56 PM 2/24/2005, Roy Norris wrote:
(snip)
>Irv would have been deeply saddened by this turn of events that he so
>prophetically predicted would happen.  And, he is not the only one.  The
>only real RTTY'ers remaining are on this list and they are only a few.
>We tried last year, unsuccessfully, to restart the 20 meter autostart
>group on 30 meters.  It seems there was not even enough interest for
>anyone to put up an antenna, although a few did.  As a result, the
>honorary named "Irv Hoff Memorial Autostart Net", AKA "Hoff Net", had a
>still birth.  Maybe Irv was right, I am sorry to say:  computer RTTY
>really has killed RTTY.
>
>Roy Norris, K4EEG



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