[GreenKeys] ASR 28

[amourdutigre]

RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY

Today, I obtained my first teletype unit that I have had in over twenty years. It is a beautiful ASR 28, courtesy of Jack WA2HWJ. The two of us got it loaded into the bed of my Nissan, and my niece's boyfriend and I managed to get it into my shack safely. Plugged it in and it works fine. (It survived the trip, hihi.) I am going to have a friend of mine who works in the automotive upholstery business make a dust cover out of heavy denim for it, though if I have my way, it will be running more than not, so it won't be covered all that much!

The first thing that I will concentrate on now is to get an RS-232 to current loop converter and get it running on Heavy Metal. (Now I know why they call it 'heavy metal'...)

The next thing that I will do is to get the TT/L-2 TU that I also obtained from Jack running. I will need to go through the unit and replace the electrolytic caps in the powersupply. I do not want to burn up those transformers. I will post some images later tonight on photobucket for your viewing pleasure.

I am interested in finding out who built the TT/L-2 as it was very professionally built, far better than anything that I could manage to construct from scratch. I am very impressed with that unit.

I do want to specifically thank Jack WA2HWJ for his generosity and help with getting me going in 'real' RTTY. I hope by this summertime to be on HF with a solid, genuine electromechanical RTTY signal, and hope to be able to QSO with as many of you on Greenkeys as I can.

Best and 73,

Joe KB0TXC /NNNN
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