[GreenKeys] Estrella Warbirds Museum W6EWM RTTY progress

[Mike Kelley]

Jim,

That sounds like fun. I like the idea of printing stories about the museum. I will look for the Basic program.

Thanks,

Mike K6AJ


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> On Oct 13, 2026, at 6:27 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> I did something like this for a museum.
> 
> On the web there is a very old MSDOS program written in BASIC with the name RTTY12G. Runs on a PC.  The original purpose pf the program is to turn a PC into an ASR set for amateur RTTY.
> Since it is in BASIC and the source is included it is easy to modify
> to suit yourself.  Assuming your PC has the kind of UART that can
> be set to 45.45 baud.
> 
> I had it set up imitating a news wire service printer with stories about
> whatever the museum was showing at the time.  Visitors could tear off the
> copy and take it with them.  (wonder if any of those later showed up on
> ebay with a high price as if they were the original copy?)  I just went
> to the library that had files of newspapers from the town and copied
> whatever stories I wanted and typed them in.
> 
> Somdething I envisioned buut never carried out was to make a transparent
> case for the 15.  Seemed that kids especially were fascinated by watching
> the machine print out the news hot off the wire.  But it's dangerous as
> well as noisy to just run the machine without a case since the viewer
> can get slammed in the head by a carriage return.
> 
> Jim W6JVE
> 
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