[GreenKeys] news wire photos

[David I. Emery]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 08:47:36PM +0000, pacquerat at comcast.net wrote:
> Lee K9WRU said, 
> 
> Ya know, I'm beginning to suspect that I'm the only reader of this reflector 
> who has actually hands on sent and received one of these old fax images. 
> If you push me much harder I might even have to take a few photos of my 
> efforts of 40 years ago! 

	You are not the only one, I actually copied real wirephotos (AP
and UPI and others) from international HF radio circuits in the mid
1960s when I was in HS.   There were several regular broadcasts of 
wirephoto packages similar to the ubiquitous RTTY news transmissions of
that era (which I also copied a lot of) - transmitted to various  remote
places where cable or microwave circuits weren't available
(international satellite circuits were a later development than this mid
60s time period and pretty completely replaced all the HF fax and RTTY
broadcasts by the 1970s).

	I used various technology, primary one was an actual film/paper
photo facsimile machine of 1950s vintage I rescued from incomplete and
cannibalized surplus scrap and adapted and enhanced.  Generally I used
standard black and white photo paper with it.

	Much of this was related to my early efforts to receive APT
photos from weather satellites in 1963-64 but the HF signals were there 
on the bands and it was interesting to see the images.


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