[GreenKeys] Re: Fax Machine Used in Flags of our Fathers

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When I was on Active Duty a few years ago (well, 39 to be exact), I 
maintained a couple of weather fax machines on the Valley Forge.  I want to say they 
were AN/UXH-2B but that doesn't seem to compute.  They had a continuous belt 
that had three solenoid controlled styli mounted on it.  And used pressure 
sensitive paper.  They were about the same physical size as the TT-1.  I don't 
recall any particular odor coming from them, other than scorched insulation.

In a message dated 5/8/2007 3:56:12 PM Central Standard Time, 
ddillman at igc.org writes: 
> >I did work on the Muirhead, an English FAX machine using a rotating Helix 
> Scanning system  and a chemical impregnated sensitive paper that was around 
> 19" wide.
> 
> Available for free - Pick up in San Francisco
> 
> I have the Alden version of this machine.  It has auto start and stop and 
> will copy the weather fax broadcasts sent by today's USCG fax stations as well 
> as many others (it has settings for multiple indexes of cooperation).  When 
> this thing starts up and the lights start to flash it is something to behold.  
> It was my primary HF fax machine for many years.  You can see several of 
> these in the background at the flight service station in the movie "Airport".  
> Any pilot of a certain age has viewed weather maps made on these machines.
> 

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