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I don't remember how many rings we heard. You guys know about ringer frequencies, right? The ringers are resonant (responsive) to set frequencies so that not everybody has to hear everybody elses rings.
After the dial phone got installed, we only heard one other customer. There's was two short rings, ours was one long ring
And now, some more annoying stories from the old days
This is the "main" operating station at K6NCG, the Treasure Island Amateur Radio Club shortly after I left. I can tell because at the time I left there was not a matching Drake receiver for the Drake transmitter, otherwise known as "Drake twins". But the PHONE is the same. When you used the phone you were required to log calls, and expected to pay for personal "toll" calls. Someone got sloppy so they put a lock in the dial. I came in on the meeting night when that got installed, and commented, "that won't stop anybody" and proceeded to demonstrate how you can dial a phone BY STOMPING THE HOOK SWITCH so many times LOLOL
This was the so called "ritty" (RTTY, or Radio TeleType) and CW (morse) position. I used it a lot. In fact a friend and I went up to the Mare Island mothball fleet and obtained some of the RTTY gear shown there
The "key" there is either a "bug" or a keyer paddle, I can not tell which. A "bug" has a weighted horizontal pendulum which automatically makes "dots" di di di di di di for as long as you hold the paddle and until the pendulum runs out of juice. You made the dashes manually by manually tapping the paddle the other direction.
A keyer paddle is essentially a precision SPDT switch. Center off, you hold it left or right to cause the electronic "keyer" to manufacture dots and dashes
The transmitter on left is a Hallicrafters HT-37, the receiver with the big "V" shaped front bezel is the tremendous Collins 75A-4, and the scope unit above is part of a military URA-8 RTTY terminal unit. It too came from the mothball fleet. I helped hook it all up
Below is the main station as I knew it Collins receiver, Drake transmitter, National NCL-2000 linear amp This is Al Dockins, RIP, a great guy
Me, at about 20 years old, on the 120ft tower. Many of the guys would not climb it. Maybe they were smarter
I don't remember how many rings we heard. You guys know about ringer frequencies, right? The ringers are resonant (responsive) to set frequencies so that not everybody has to hear everybody elses rings.
After the dial phone got installed, we only heard one other customer. There's was two short rings, ours was one long ring
And now, some more annoying stories from the old days
This is the "main" operating station at K6NCG, the Treasure Island Amateur Radio Club shortly after I left. I can tell because at the time I left there was not a matching Drake receiver for the Drake transmitter, otherwise known as "Drake twins". But the PHONE is the same. When you used the phone you were required to log calls, and expected to pay for personal "toll" calls. Someone got sloppy so they put a lock in the dial. I came in on the meeting night when that got installed, and commented, "that won't stop anybody" and proceeded to demonstrate how you can dial a phone BY STOMPING THE HOOK SWITCH so many times LOLOL
This was the so called "ritty" (RTTY, or Radio TeleType) and CW (morse) position. I used it a lot. In fact a friend and I went up to the Mare Island mothball fleet and obtained some of the RTTY gear shown there
The "key" there is either a "bug" or a keyer paddle, I can not tell which. A "bug" has a weighted horizontal pendulum which automatically makes "dots" di di di di di di for as long as you hold the paddle and until the pendulum runs out of juice. You made the dashes manually by manually tapping the paddle the other direction.
A keyer paddle is essentially a precision SPDT switch. Center off, you hold it left or right to cause the electronic "keyer" to manufacture dots and dashes
The transmitter on left is a Hallicrafters HT-37, the receiver with the big "V" shaped front bezel is the tremendous Collins 75A-4, and the scope unit above is part of a military URA-8 RTTY terminal unit. It too came from the mothball fleet. I helped hook it all up
Below is the main station as I knew it Collins receiver, Drake transmitter, National NCL-2000 linear amp This is Al Dockins, RIP, a great guy
Me, at about 20 years old, on the 120ft tower. Many of the guys would not climb it. Maybe they were smarter
