[GreenKeys] Navy Teletype Message Generator

[Jeffrey Golas]

Thought you guys and gals might find this interesting...I volunteer on Battleship NJ and found this tucked away. Appears to be Navy-like but mentions "project" on it, serial #3 lol. Other than WMS on the board theres no manufacturer.

Its a RTTY/Teletype message generator that does the "quick brown fox" message. Whats really interesting is that all that is based on ONE chip whose sole purpose is exactly that. A MM5220DF. Other chips in that series have similar purposes, like ASCII-BAUDOT conversion.

Theres what looks like a white CPU, but Icant find any docs on it. It almost looks like something they had a surplus of, and with no rom, possibly wired it as a NOP (no-operation) so that it would just be an 8 bit counter. I think anyway.

It does seen to work after cleaning all the switches, I plan to test on the loop. All it does is keying via a solid state relay. I tried piping my signal gen through it but Fldigi couldnt decode.

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