[GreenKeys] Saving paper tapes (was Auto-Pix)

[gil smith]

Hi folks:

I have mentioned this before and had no takers.  If someone wants to save 
tapes, I will ship you a loaner unit to make it easy (just ship it back 
when you are done).  One catch:  you must make the pic files public, by 
sending them to Bill Bytheway for inclusion in the pic library at 
rtty.com.  Reasonable enough eh?

I have a little 28-TD which I modified to plug directly into a 232 
port.  You just plug it in to your pc, and then read tapes into a program 
like RTTYArt to save and name the file.  I suppose Heavymetal would work as 
well.  The TD is geared for 100-wpm, so the read will (reasonably) 
fast.  You PC must have a serial port compatible with the above 
program(s).  The TD does not take much desk space, and there are just power 
and 232 cables hanging out.

If someone is willing to read a library of tapes (like the set from John 
Sheetz), send me your address, and I'll ship this guy off to you.  Such a deal.

gil


At 06:07 AM 4/24/2006, David Freeman wrote:
>John,
>
>Can you send me Bob's contact info and I'll see if we can get going on this.
>It's pretty easy to set up your AFSK output from the TU into MMTTY and log
>the data to your hard drive. An editor quickly cleans up any errors and burn
>it to a CD. It just takes hours and hours and hours of machine time. I think
>I can get four or five going at once.
>
>Cutting tapes is even easier, heck I've let my M14 run all night and found
>everything still humming along the next morning.
>
>While storage/exchange on CD is certainly easier. The purist in me says
>paper tape should be archived as well. Once this project is done, I'm a little
>saddend by the thought that 1,500 RTTY PIX will be so easily obtained. Where
>is the challenge in that. And once we all have a copy, there won't be much
>reason to exchange them on the air. Of course we can create new PIX
>but that is so damn easy now it's not funny. That era has ended....
>
>Dave, WW8S
>
>
>On Sun 4/23/2006  6:02 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote :
>
> > At 09:12 AM 4/20/2006, David Freeman wrote:
> > >I volunteered to receive/store/archive tapes, and even redistribute 
> them in exchange
> > >for blank tape. The last large collection I know about was John Sheetz 
> estate's extensive collection. I think Bob Camp took possesion of it. I 
> don't know what's become of Bob
> > >since he was once very active posting to several reflectors but now is 
> unheard from.
> > >I'd still like to get a copy of the Sheetz collection since it was one 
> of the most complete and accurate assemblies of RTTY pix around.
> >
> > Ah, a volunteer.  I sent a message to Bob Camp.  He recently changed jobs
> > and became very busy.  He admirably rescued the Sheetz tapes, but now
> > he's willing to hand off the archiving to someone else.
> >
> > Duping paper tapes?  Because I'm more computer-oriented than ham-oriented,
> > I regard the more important task as converting the old tapes to
> > computer-readable data files so they can be archived, cloned and shared.
> >
> > As I understand it, we're talking about fourteen cubic feet of tapes.
> >
> > - John
> >
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