A collection of videos showing teletype machines in operation, ITTY demonstrations, and RTTY events. Videos open on YouTube. More will be added as they are identified.
The Museum of Communications in Seattle preserves working telecommunications equipment including a large collection of operational teletype machines. These videos show museum machines copying live ITTY feeds.
The Antique Wireless Association was founded in 1952 by amateur radio operators committed to collecting and preserving early wireless and radio equipment before it was lost to future generations. The AWA Communication Technologies Museum maintains one of the most comprehensive collections of vintage communications equipment in the country.
Duncan Brown, K2OEQ, came to teletypewriters the way many in this hobby did — sideways. Drafted in 1966, he expected a radio assignment; the Army sent him to Teletypewriter Repair School instead. After the Army he earned a BSEE from Rochester Institute of Technology while working at RF Communications, then nine years at Microwave Data Systems, before retiring in 2000.
He joined the AWA and began volunteering at the Museum of Communications in Seattle. His first major project: rescuing an AN/GRC-46B military RTTY system from the Museum annex — in pieces. It was a system he had worked on in Vietnam. He reassembled it, and it became the foundation of what is now one of the largest teletypewriter collections in the country: over 30 models from 10 manufacturers.
Duncan has generously contributed directly to this site — correcting technical errors, sharpening historical detail, and keeping us honest on the finer points of RTTY.
