"For my documentary on bulletin board systems, I interviewed John
Sheetz, KA2GI, who was involved in RTTY art for an extended amount of
time. As I finished that production, I went to give a copy to Mr.
Sheetz, and found out to my sadness that he had become a "silent key"
and passed away in January of 2005. I had already found out about the
loss of Don Royer, a giant in this sub-culture of collecting and
creating RTTY art. I wrote about this situation, and was contacted by
a number of RTTY folks, including Marvin Collins, who told me about
Doug Nelson, who had a collection of over 1,700 RTTY artworks from the
various nights of trading over the decades. I contacted Mr. Nelson
and he sent along this collection, which he estimates to be something
on the order of half of all the artwork he had seen over the years.
To all these people and many more, this collection is dedicated to
them."
