[GreenKeys] Re: Larry's gears...

[wa2hwj at att.net]

Eugene and Jim are obviously correct...I mistakenly recalled the Model 401 shown in the
Wayne Green TAB RTTY Handbook..looks similar. Either way, I went nuts trying to figure out the
speed until I noticed one of my old signal generators had the 53 wpm speed. I do correctly 
remember that the 5A mechanism was very similar to a Model 26.

Jack K0TTY

NNNN

-------------- Original message from <eugene at hertzmail.com>: -------------- 


> 
> Mine is actually a western union ticker model 5A so it probably isn't 
> exactly a 401 but either way, Jack was able to bring it back to life. I 
> still have a project on my plate to make a polar switching system and 
> then a program to send out the 6-level code and have this starting 
> printing modern stock quotes. No time for fun these days. 
> 
> Eugene 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Haynes 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:22 PM 
> To: Don Robert House 
> Cc: wa2hwj at att.net; Jim Haynes; Gil Smith 
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Re: Larry's gears... 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Don Robert House wrote: 
> 
> > I remember Jim Haynes mentioning this some time ago. 
> > 
> > Don K9TTY 
> > 
> > On 16 Sep 2008, at 11:32 AM, wa2hwj at att.net wrote: 
> > 
> > The WU 401 "ticker" that I worked on for Eugene also ran at 53 wpm (6 
> level). 
> > 
> > Jack K0TTY 
> 
> Not to be pedantic, but the 401 was a Baudot printer made from a ticker. 
> In WW-II W.U. needed more teleprinters and couldn't get them, and 
> apparently had a surplus of tickers. Only a few were made, because 
> W.U. merged with Postal Telegraph and that made available an adequate 
> supply of regular teleprinters. 
> 
> Maybe someone with one of the tickers can tell us what model number 
> W.U. gave it. It doesn't seem to have had a Teletype model number, 
> because the numbered models were mainly a Bell System thing and the 
> tickers were not made for the Bell System. It may also have a Teletype 
> letter code. 
> 
> 
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