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From: "Dick Rollema" <d.w.rollema@freeler.nl>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Cc: "Koos Fockens, PA0KDF" <K.Fockens@iaf.nl>
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Subject: LF: Re: Hellschreiber
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:39:57 +0200
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> Does anyone run the mechanical Hell' in this country? I think I once saw
one
> in action many years ago. From memory the display was produced by a
> continously rotating helix which was brought into contact with the moving
> paper strip by a solenoid. Quite ingenious!
>
> Cheers de Alan G3NYK
> Alan.Melia@btinternet.com

Hello Alan and others,

There are several ones in your country Alan, eg at the Science Museum.

I also worked G's using a machine, for instance the late G5XB and others
whose calls I  can't remember.

I have one on "permanent" loan from PA0AOB and are using it on the air
since 1976.

There is a  Hellschreiber meeting on Sundays at 14.30 UTC (in winter 15.40
UTC) at about
3580kHz using the "Feldhell" system.

You can learn a lot about the Hellschreiber by visiting one of the
websites of Murray Greenman, ZLBPU, for instance:

http://www..qsl.net/zl1bpu/FUZZY/History/history.html

Software for it can be downloaded from

http://www.qsl.net/zl1bpu/FUZZY/starting.html

Murray can be contacted at  as149@detroit.freenet.org

An informative article on the Hellscreiber by ZL1BPU can be found in QST
January 2000: "Let's See you in Hellschreiber". It contains a photograph of
"my" machine.

73, Dick, PAoSE