[GreenKeys] CRLF or not CRLF?

Richard Knoppow 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
Sun Jul 30 14:45:11 EDT 2017


    My friend and mentor W6VX, David Atkins, who started in the spark 
days, built a small rotary spark machine for a museum demonstration. It 
operated right on top of a local broadcast station. I got to key it. It 
doesn't take long to understand why they were called "rock crushers".

On 7/30/2017 6:26 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Nick England wrote:
> 
>> I am all ready for a different contest that says no solid state 
>> devices anywhere. All tubes and teletypes from one end to the other. 
>> Better yet, an Alexandersen generator xmtr if you have one!
> 
> Let's have a spark-gap contest!  That's how it all began, wasn't it?  Of 
> course, you'll earn yourself a WALT award (Worked All Local Televisions)...
> 

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL


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