[BC] AP 10 Bells Survery

[Stan Tacker]

I bought a model 15 back in the 70's and used it for RTTY for a long time.
It finally went out on the curb for the garbage man a couple of years ago.
(They took it!).

The sound I associate with the bulletins was not so much the bells (they
were hard to ignore) but the sound of the machine racheting the paper as
quadruple spaced rows of XXXs then the bulletin copy were being printed.  

By the way, which was easier to get off of your fingers, UPI blue or AP
black ink?

Stan

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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Paul Smith W4KNX
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I still have a 28ASR in my ham shack.  I dust it off once in a while.  Still
clatters like a charm.  It would make a great anchor for a battleship.

Paul Smith
W4KNX
Sarasota, FL

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And how much of your hearing went with it ..  ding-ding-clatter-clatter-ding

thunk-ding ding...
ha!
I (being a bit different, I suppose) always thought the racket and bells and

smell were - well, interesting.   Wouldn't want them at home, or in the 
bedroom.. wouldn't want to put up with it all 24/7.   But they had their 
place and the "newbies" have missed an experience never having seen one of 
those 'old machines' really work...

   Kinda like the old WWI cipher machines.  I'd love to play with some of 
that neat old technology for a day or two.

  Wonder if they too had bells??

Jason

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Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:18 AM
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>
>>
>> On 20 Jun 2006 at 22:19, Stanley Adams wrote:
>>> I have heard the 10 Bells about three times I think since the middle 
>>> 60's. Can everyone pitch in and lets count the events that have happened

>>> since that time that would set the bells off.
>>> Now, remember this has to be an actual 10 Bell event, not just something

>>> that we might think would be newsworthy. I have been sitting here 
>>> thinking tonight and I just cannot remember a one of them. Perhaps when 
>>> Johnson died, this was a long time ago.
>
> I worked for AP Radio one summer and the engineering shop was in the 
> basement of the office building where AP Radio was based, the studios were

> on the fourth or fifth floor. When there was an engineering trouble ticket

> issued, we would receive it on a special teletype set up in the shop. 
> When a trouble ticket came in, it was preceded by 10 bells.  Trouble 
> tickets would come in once or twice a day, so after a few weeks the sound 
> of 10 bells lost its originial impact with me.
>                                        Fee Lee
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