On Saturday 25 January 2025 02:48:21 pm wn4isx via groups.io wrote:
Then I remembered my ham radio RTTY (radio teletype) enthusiast who uses a CRT to tune for best reception. This guy is old school, mechanical RTTY terminals, etc.
Heh. I remember seeing a setup like that. This was so long ago that I can't even remember when it was. Somebody I knew thought that I might perhaps be interested in ham radio, and introduced me to this guy. So I went over to his house and saw his setup, which wss really quite impressive. One of the items there was a mechanical teletype machine, and another one was a scope showing the comparative ampiitudes of the two tones, so he could tune it in.
We didn't hit it off for some reason, but I can still remember that bit of equipment...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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