[GreenKeys] What is value of DS3100 and ST6

[Ralph Mowery]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Mushel" <herbert3 at centurytel.net>
To: "Don Cunningham" <wb5hak at martineer.net>; "Jim Pruitt" 
<wa7duy at charter.net>; "Greenkeys RTTY" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] What is value of DS3100 and ST6


>I found the Jim and Don's discussion to be very interesting and timely.   I
> don't know why actual teletype equipment isn't more highly valued but my
> recent experience certainly confirms the fact that one simply can't expect
> any return on the investment.   I suspect that's because younger people 
> have
> no idea what an operating machine is like.  But you also have to be aware
> that this does not apply to older transmitting and receiving tube gear. 
> In
> fact, if you have what we used to call Hi Fi gear it can actually generate 
> a
> return.   I recently saw an old mono heathkit amp which I happen to have
> built in the late 50's and still have sell on ebay for nearly ten times 
> its
> original price!
>
> In contrast, a teletype machine that I might have paid $200 for in the
> sixties would have to be given to me today!
>
> 73
>
> Lee   K9WRU

The HI-FI people seem to be gulliable about many things.  One item that 
always gets to me is the replacement AC cord that goes from the hi-fi to the 
wall socket.  About 6 feet of the special wire can cost over $ 100.  Even if 
that wire could make a differance, there is about 50 to 100 feet of 
inexpensive wire in the wall going to the breaker/fuse box.  Some of the old 
'bumble bee' capacitors are going for a very high price also.  The hi-fi 
people have been convienced that the tube equipment sounds lots beter than 
solid state.  Bet most could not tell the differance.  I do understand some 
of the differances in the sound, but I could not hear them.  Maybe like 
wine, experts claim to tell the differance and maybe they can.

There are very few poeple interisted in the mechanical teletype units.  They 
are big and make lots of noise.  Also not too many can get one going if it 
breaks.  Lots of people that get them just want them moved out and do not 
have a way to get rid of them.  With the sound card interfaces for ham 
radio, not much use for the items like the ST-6.  I did get one off ebay for 
abut $ 20 abut a year ago.  Think the shipping was about the price I payed 
for the st-6.

I would like to get a modle 28 but I have not seen any Close enough for me 
to go after from North Carolina.