[GreenKeys] Quoth the RTTY...

[Paul Wills (CKT&T)]

Could this be it?

http://www.virhistory.com/navy/manuals/tty/rtty-journal/1963-1972/PDF/VO16NO2.PDF

(That sounded too good to not find!)

PDW

On 5/17/2017 10:20 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> I may have mentioned this before, but I'm still trying to find this poem
> running around inside my head, which was a spoof of Poe's "The Raven" (the
> poem I mean, not my head, although these days they are largely
> indistinguishable).
>
> It was posted to USENET way back in the 80s (when dinosaurs had 300bd
> modems), quite likely in either rec.radio.amateur.misc or
> rec.radio.amateur.digital, but I'm damned if I can find it in any archive.
>
> The bits that I can remember in my addled memory are:
>
>      "And the main-shaft's driven member lay in pieces on the floor"
>
>      "RTTY Contest was tomorrow, vainly had I sought to borrow"
>
>      "Like a little kitten purring, running RYs by the score"
>
>      "In a bid to break its fetters, I've worn out the key marked LTRS"
>
> And the refrain was:
>
>      "Quoth the RTTY: 464"
>
> (Yes, the FIGS was jammed on.)
>
> Hey, if we all put our heads together we could re-compose it!
>