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    From Ed Vance@1:2320/107 to Rug Rat on Saturday, June 13, 2026 13:18:00
    Brent, You mentioned RTTY being dead n a message

    In around the 1980's or 1990's I ran 20M RTTY.
    One afternoon after W1AW ended their broadcast I typed CQ on that frequency thinking some other Ham might also had listened to the W1AW Bulletin and I hoped to geta QSO with another station.
    And I did!

    i had built a Netronics ASCII/RTTY Keyboard / video terminal and used part of the Demodulator circuit from a Popular Electronics article.

    later another Ham told me about using Digicom 2.0 with my Commodore 64 PC to get on Packet.

    Them were the good old days

    73 Ed W9ODR
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  • From Rug Rat@1:135/250 to Ed Vance on Saturday, June 13, 2026 23:48:26
    On Sat 13-Jun-2026 1:18p, Ed Vance@1:2320/107.0 said to Rug Rat:
    Brent, You mentioned RTTY being dead n a message

    RTTY was one of my favorite digital modes! I enjoyed the long rag chews (Like being in a SysOp chat..).. :)

    One of my most memorable RTTY contacts was working The Gambia while camping on top of Mt. Laguna in San Diego county. It was one of the most portable stations you could possibly imagine.. A ham stick on a mag mount in the bed of my pickup, and the 12 volt battery I pulled out of my boat for the trip! I do not know which was more fun, the actual contact or my dads reaction when I recently retold the story.. He looked at me like I was telling a tall tail, and asked how I managed to drag a teleprinter to the top of a mountain!

    My favorite QSO was working Bell, Austrailia from my sailboat, which I lived on at the time.

    73 de KF6HDJ

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