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HISTORY   HALL

History Hall presently features four pieces. The first two were submitted to the world by Jim Haynes, W6JVE, while he was at the University of California, Santa Cruz. We have re-formatted them a bit for easier reading, but the documents are as original, with abstracts.

Our next feature was taken from the July 1963 RTTY Journal. Having purchased my first teletype machine from this gentleman, he was one I personally held in awe. Friendly, gentle, and ever helpful, particularly to a teen-ager loaded with questions, the warmth of his welcome is something I shall never forget. Please enjoy this recap of a special event in the life of:

Elliot S. "Buck" Buchanan, W6VPC

Our fourth feature is a letter from Forrest "Bart" Bartlett, W6OWP.
Many amateurs honed their CW skills on the nightly code practice runs from
his station. Bart was also a pioneer in the field of RTTY, having been in the News Business
since before World War II. Jim Haynes suggested contacting Bart, so we did.
I talked with Bart a few times on the telephone and asked him to chronicle some of the early years of RTTY as he remembers them. Please click on the link below and read
the recollections of:

Forrest "Bart" Bartlett, W6OWP


Contributions to History Hall are encouraged and solicited. If you have some interesting bit of RTTY History you would like to share, please send it via e-mail or USPS and we will feature it in History Hall.

We are currently looking for anecdotes and information on Irv Hoff, W6FFC, Bob Weitbrecht, W6NRM, Boyd Phelps, W0BP, and Byron Kretzman, W2JTP.

Any and all contributions are welcome.

73,

George, W7KSJ

Email : W7KSJ@RTTY.COM

Postal: George B. Hutchison, W7KSJ
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