[GreenKeys] ANFGQ-3?

[skip at osbornville.com]

Hi Jim … I’ve been a member here for a few years and have been able to 
dispose of some of my RTTY items in an effort to clean out the basement … including
my Model-19 to a new ham in Pennsylvania … I still have a typing reperf to 
use with my home-brew TU.

If the code machine was a Boehme keyer or similar I would be interested in seeing pictures
to maybe identify the one I used.

I have an idea for those advanced software types out there.  Some of the charm of
a mechanical machine is the solid sound it makes as it types out the messages, especially 
at full speed.  For those of us who no longer have a machine, we can possibly recapture that 
experience.  With all the software RTTY programs available that decode the tones, maybe they 
can be modified to add a sound bite for each character decoded.  Recordings of each mechanical
operation (including CR, LF, spaces, bell, and even the motor idling) can be digitally stored and activated
following each decoded character. Hopefully the timing between characters will allow this. Also, typing
on the PC keyboard would produce the same sounds … even running open loop could sound realistic.
To go really crazy, with the advancements in VR, maybe a virtual TTY machine could be rendered
so you could look through those goggles and see the machine printing out.  Maybe even type on it with 
the digital gloves.  Using earphones no-one else needs to be disturbed during the contests or monitoring
the broadcasts.

Tell us what you think … is it even possible?  Sounds like fun and maybe can be used as a computer 
programming exercise in a school software course.

Skip  K2RJF 


> On Feb 4, 2020, at 1:09 PM, Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey skip ... fancy running into you here !!!
> 
> The Wheatstone is only the tape perforator ...
> the tapes were usally run through a Boehme keyer head,
> which read the two-hole tape and keyed a polar relay
> that flipped back and forth depending on which hole(s)
> were read at that position.
> 
> The Boehme keyers were about the size of a Model 14 TD,
> maybe a bit bigger, and VERY heavy.
> 
> Jim   w2jc / ex-w2bve
> 
> On 4 Feb 2020 at 12:39, skip at osbornville.com wrote:
> 
>> When I was learning Morse code for my ham radio exam back in 1956 my
>> friend used a code machine that used paper tape.  It looked like a
>> military unit that was in an open frame and had 2 levers at the read
>> head that were an inch or so long and he had to occasionally poke
>> them or make adjustments to them to keep it running.  I have never
>> seen anything close to this machine until this discussion.  Pictures
>> of the Wheatstone units don´t seem to have this double lever
>> reader head.  I wonder if anyone out there knows anything about it.
>> Just curious.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Skip  K2RJF
>> 
>>> On Feb 3, 2020, at 10:33 PM, Duncan Brown
>> <duncanancy at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is a "Wheatstone tape perforator":
>>> 
>>> 
>>> McKay made one like this, also.
>>> 
>>> If a US Morse tape perforator has a keyboard, then it's a "Kline",
>> made by Kleinschmidt Electric ( later, by Morkrum,  M-K & Teletype
>> Corp.)
>>> 
>>> I suppose a more generic term is "Morse perforator.
>>> 
>>> Duncan
>>> K2OEQ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2/3/2020 21:34, Nick England wrote:
>>>> Wheatstone tape perforator.
>>>> Info, photos, etc at
>>>> http://www.navy-radio.com/morse.htm
>>>> Look about half way down the page.
>>>> 
>>>> Nick
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 8:07 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net
>> <mailto:jhhaynes at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   I see there's one of these on ebay, item # 164051888209
>>>> 
>>>>   Not anything I want, but does anybody know what this is?
>>>> 
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