Gang,
Please Lord "Bob" Save me! I've downloaded a new RTTY program & have been
reacquainting myself with something that I did for my entire USN
enlistment & some. That's over 25 years ago. I used to get off watch,
take a shower & fall into my rack & have dreams in which no one spoke.
There was just this big green keyboard in front of me & whatever someone
wanted to say they had to spell it out.
And we all know that the part of your brain that does the literacy act
goes to sleep when you do.
So it was like some kind of pagan torture. Ayeeeee!
This in addition to PSK & Hell . . . both of which are interesting in
their own right (or left) minds. All I have to do now is figure out why
my tx signal tones do not match the tones of the station I'm reading. And
this is real reading, peeps. Only without the huge boxes of paper & all
them burn bags goin' down to the incinerator under armed guard.
I remember sittin' in front of the TGO terminal with my happy blinkin'
crypto light & all that stuff, showing one of the other swabbies a page
in Ham Radio Magazine (this around 1971 or very early 1972) where a note
told of someone who had just sent a video image using a primative CCD to
take a picture of his QSL card or something. I looked at one of the guys
and said "This is the end of paper tape." Someday and none too soon, I
remember thinking, all this will be terminals with LCD panels & the RATT
(USN terminology for RTTY) would be old fashion in the dumpster. All
restricted men muster with the duty master at arms on the starboard
elevator aft.
Yeah, I know. It's been around for decades. Where you been old man? But
what the heck.
Amazing. What a load of memories this brings up.
See youse on the screen. (And what is that picolo soundin' stuff? Do I
really need that one TOO?)
73
Nils
. . . and I still remember all those routing indicators . . . wonder
what happened to all of that with the Internet kickin' in . . . I hear
you can get your email on shipboard now . . . like juno.com or something
.. . . properly vetted by the NSA too, I'd bet . . .
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Nils R. Bull Young -- El Gringo Errante -- La Estancia de los Guajolotes
Sonrientes
http://www6.50megs.com/w8ijn -- W8IJN --
http://members.fortunecity.com/nilsbull
"In MY day we had to FIGHT to have earphones! Every DAY was a STRUGGLE!"
-- Comrade Nikolai Sergeievich
McTovarishov, 19 Oct 1917
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