From Ed Vance@1:2320/107 to Rug Rat on Sat Jun 13 13:18:00 2026
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 All on Tue Jun 30 21:45:10 2026
If anyone would like to try scheduling a good ol RTTY QSO on 20 or 40 Meters, please let me know and I would be happy to get FLDigi setup.
Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
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