[GreenKeys] W6OWP(SK) RTTY Pioneer LP on Ebay

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In a message dated 11/17/2007 8:38:39  P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
digitalham at gmail.com writes:
Looks like Bart was  really a RTTY pioneer from the ARRL story of his 
death:  http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/07/11/1/?nc=1

He happens to have  been the fist used for this very strange record on 
Ebay:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300170169607

I  have no connection to the Ebay auction, except for wanting a copy  :-)

-Christopher "Fibber" K6FIB

I am really surprised to learn of  the this LP record of Bart, W6OWP, where 
Bart was the fist for the Morse  Code.  In all my 50 plus years of RTTY skeds 
with Bart, this is one item  Bart never mentioned to me.  I sure would like to 
see this LP converted to  a CD.  This is something I can do if I can obtain 
the audio from the LP  record.
Yes, Bart was really a RTTY pioneer.  He  started RTTY back to the days 
before FSK was authorized by the FCC.  His  early RTTY QSO's were via make and 
break keying.  By the time of my first  QSO with Bart in 1954 FSK had been 
authorized by the FCC.  However, for the  fun of it Bart and I did send make and 
break keying for RTTY a couple of times  during our thousands of RTTY skeds.
If anyone is  interested in the history of Bart, W6OWP, as revealed to me 
during our skeds,  contact me off the list so I can send you a copy of an article 
I wrote that was  published in Radio Guide.  The story also tells of Bart's 
work receiving  Morse Code news broadcasts in Southern California for 
distribution to local  radio stations.  This was in the days before the news was 
distributed via  Teletype.  The start of Teletype distribution caused Bart to change 
from CW  to TTY as his job.  He was excellent at CW.  When he was on the road 
 on vacation trips we kept our skeds via CW where I had to use a computer to 
send  and receive the CW because Bart would have me send CW to him at 40 WPM.  
He  would send back to me at about the same speed but I needed my computer to 
 receive his signal.  During my first RTTY contacts with Bart I thought he  
was sending with punch tape.  When I met him at his QTH for the first time  and 
saw he had only a model 15 I was amazed at how good he was on the keyboard  
sending manually.  Over the years I had a lot of practice typing RTTY with  
Bart.

Marvin Collins, W6OQI  




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