【火腿故事】寻TA千百度｜无线电博物馆寻觅十年，火腿相助终得古老莫尔斯电码纸带阅读机

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一个博物馆

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终于找到了

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美国佐治亚州的火腿，ARRL成员Gene Greneker, K4MOG，最近完成了查塔姆马可尼海事中心博物馆的梦想，在科德角的海岸电台旗舰台站为其馆藏文物添加了一件重要的老物件。

去年在QST杂志上，Greneker发现一条为博物馆寻找所谓的“纸带阅读机”的简短的资讯。当大多数船岸台站的通联都是由熟练的莫尔斯操作员通过电键进行发报，纸带阅读机需要事先读取一条已打孔的纸带，之后将其转换成单向的莫尔斯代码信号向在海上的船只发送。

查塔姆马可尼海事中心运营经理Dorothy Bassett说：“我们已经花了大约十年的时间不断搜寻这个物件，我们追寻着历史学家的步伐，寻找其他博物馆、档案员、业余无线电爱好者、收藏家和任何其他可能的线索。” 造访博物馆的ARRL实验室职员Mike Gruber，W1MG对在QST发布信息起了作用。Greneker最终发现了这则信息，并告诉Bassett 他有一台博物馆寻找多年的纸带阅读机。

“我们的工作人员和支持者筹措了一笔经费，这样，我们能够购买纸带阅读机、定制桌子并与我们的Kleinschmidt设备一道，展示这个全套装备是如何工作的。Kleinschmidt设备或被称为“克莱恩”，该设备用于打出狭窄的带状穿孔纸“惠特斯通”纸带，纸带阅读机负责读取信息并转换成莫尔斯代码信号。

Bassett表示，一旦布展完成，博物馆计划安装一个按钮，游客可以启动机器，所有参观者可以听到工作中的纸带阅读机发出的声音，看到纸带及打孔针的运动和设备的机械装置的动作。”

Greneker说纸带阅读机是一种稀有的收藏，他当年和 Fred Dorsey WA4TDC买下了一整套安装在佛罗里达台站的设备。“这些台站只有一台设备来播放海上交通信息，其他的都随着Wheatstone射孔器被削减而减少,“

Greneker告诉Bassett：“鉴于当时没有很多海岸电台，所以并没有生产多少纸条阅读机。”Greneker说这些机器都是手动组装的，价格昂贵。他推测他捐赠的这台纸条阅读机曾经在海岸电台旗舰站工作过。

海岸电台因从(WCC)旗舰站购得老设备而出名，当一些更小的台站 (WOE)提出需求时，海岸电台会将购得的设备发送给他们。旗舰站然后得到新的替换设备，Greneker解释说，当海岸电台RCA等运营商弃用这些设施之后，今天，就算把整个站装起来抬到垃圾场都找不到这些装备。”

Bassett 说，博物馆志愿者Lewis Masson在海岸电台RCA站工作了35年，纸条阅读机非常重要。“每次他开始工作，听到它运行，这是一个尝试并真实地还原了当时的工作氛围”她说。”这件物品对我们是非常特别的，我对ARRL的感谢无法用言语来表达。”

英文原文：

ARRL member Gene Greneker, K4MOG, of Powder Springs, Georgia, recently fulfilled a dream for the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center museum — formerly WCC on Cape Cod — to add an important artifact to its collection.

Greneker spotted a brief item in QST last year seeking a so-called “Creed machine” for the museum. While most ship-to-shore station traffic was conducted by skilled Morse operators at their keys, the Creed machine — or keyer — read a punched tape prepared in advance that generated one-way Morse code broadcasts to ships at sea.

“We have searched continuously for roughly 10 years for this artifact, following leads with historians, other museums, archivists, ham radio operators, collectors, and any other possible leads,” said Chatham Marconi Maritime Center Operations Manager Dorothy Bassett. The mention in QST, resulting from a visit to the museum by ARRL Lab staffer Mike Gruber, W1MG, did the trick. Greneker spotted it and let Bassett know he had what she was seeking.

“Our members and supporters raised the funds, and we were able to purchase the Creed machine, a custom table, and an entire exhibit to showcase this item and how it worked with our Kleinschmidt machine,” Bassett recounted. The Kleinschmidt machine — or “Klein” — refers to the equipment used to create the punched “Wheatstone” tape, the narrow ribbon of heavy, perforated paper read by the Creed keyer.

Bassett said that once the exhibit is complete, the museum plans to install a button that visitors could push to start the machine, “so guests will get to hear the Creed working, see the tape move, and watch the pins and mechanics in action.”

Greneker said the Creed machine is a rare find for a collector, and he obtained his when he and Fred Dorsey, WA4TDC, bought an entire lot of equipment that had been installed at WOE in Lantana, Florida. “Most of these stations only had one keyer to broadcast the traffic lists on the hour, and these were cut with the Wheatstone perforator,” Greneker told Bassett. “Given that there were not that many shore-to-ship stations, not many Creed keyers were ever manufactured.” Greneker said the machines were assembled by hand and expensive to purchase. He speculated that the Creed machine he donated may once have been at WCC.

“RCA was famous for taking old equipment from the flagship station (WCC) and sending it to the smaller stations (WOE) when they needed some item. The flagship station then got the new replacement equipment,” he explained. Greneker explained that when shore station operators such as RCA closed those facilities, “the entire station was loaded up and carried to the dump, making the keyers almost impossible to find today.”

Bassett said that museum volunteer Lewis Masson had worked for 35 years at the RCA station as a wireman, and the Creed machine was deeply important him. “Every time he came into work, he heard it running, and it was a tried and true part of the original atmosphere,” she said. “This piece is very special to us, and I can’t thank the ARRL enough for running the ad that secured procurement.”

Source:ARRL

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