Yeah, I remember talking to a very famous ham about that very subject
many years ago on a 2 meter repeater in the NYC area. He was a reporter
during WW2 and worked in the press office, and he recounted to me
stories about whole banks of Model 60s clacking away with the news.
He used to work for CBS news and is now seen on the Discovery channel
from time to time. 73s Mike

Panzer240 wrote:

dxAce wrote in :



That may indeed be true, but the news broadcasts have all but virtually
disappeared.

dxAce



SIGH Yes they have gone the way of the DoDo unfortunately. As did the
press wireless stations (great for morse code practice) they replaced before
them Replaced by satellite and RSS feeds on the net. Used to be great fun
Having the old Model 15 Reperf clacking away in the shack copying the news
wires. The smell of oil and ozone and getting the mews before it was in the
papers or on the radio !!!