[GreenKeys] Under 40?! Call out for age...

[Virgil Bierschwale]

as a navy radioman, a lot of memories come back when I look at the picture
of your basement navcommsta


On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am 24 in teletype years (5 level => base 32 notation)
> I'd visited hams using RTTY back in the early 60's and used M33s on
> computers in the 70's, but wasn't at all interested until I developed this
> fascination with US Navy Radio Communications about 8 years ago. Bill
> Strangfeld gave me a 28ASR needing restoration and I swore that would be
> the only Teletype I'd ever need or want........and then somehow the neurons
> started firing and the endorphins started pumping (or, more likely,
> insanity struck). Thanks to greenkeyers and the "encouragement" of Bill and
> my pal John Poulton K4OZY, I now have about twenty M28 machines of various
> flavors (and one USN Mite) that I have gotten running in my "Basement
> NAVCOMMSTA"
> http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-tty-151122.jpg
> and there are another dozen or so M28 machines on the project shelves.
> What fun!
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
>
>>
>> *From:* GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] *On Behalf
>> Of *Mark Hall
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 28, 2015 12:07 PM
>> *To:* greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>> *Subject:* [GreenKeys] Under 40?! Call out for age...
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The query posted about any Greenkeyers "under 40" made me curious...
>>
>> That's a real dangerous thing for me.
>>
>> What is the age range of Greenkeyers on here?
>>
>> Can we identify who our tribal elders are, and who are the "tenderfoots"?
>>
>> I'll go first. I'm 56, grew up around model 15's and forgot them
>> completely
>>
>> when I was in high school. I rediscovered all this when I turned 54. So I
>> am
>>
>> slowly returning to childhood!
>>
>> I'm probably the youngest Greenkeyer. That being said, if it is indeed
>> so,
>>
>> would make me the "cub", and the go-fer for the rest of you guys. What
>>
>> better place to be, than lowliest of all, and student of all... I may not
>> have
>>
>> come from your era, but I can continue the madness!
>>
>>
>>
>> OK. Any others? It can't be any more embarrassing. I waded in first!
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> Mark
>> <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>>
>
>
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