20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
4:37 p.m.
On 10/21/07, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
Until we moved Comms out of the Dome to the new Station, we still had
an RTTY rig set up for emergency communications. It was used in 2004,
for certain, when we were between satellite passes and we couldn't get
a call through on our Iridium phones.
To keep this nominally on-topic, it was one of two 386s in production
when the dome was still in use - the other was a Dell 386SX-16 working
as a front-end to our PBX. There was a sign on it warning people not
to throw it away.
RTTY always sounded like fun, but, despite my Ham ticket, I have yet
to set up so much as a packet station, let alone something I know less
about.
-ethan
I did not
look, because I did not think any were left.
Talk to hams. RTTY was very popular many years back. Hams never throw
anything away.