[GreenKeys] New Project

[Eugene Hertz]

George and all,

While live information is great and certainly timely, I could also imagine having various "songs" available for download that could be historical in nature. For example, lets say I want to teach my kids about JFK.  Imagine being able to go to the project and initiate the news stories that came over teletypes of his assassination? 

Or how about various nasa launches and successes and failures?  There would seem to be a TON of interesting material that could be "re-enacted." Although someone would have to key/OCR these stories (unless collectors out there had the tapes). But maybe we could enlist the help of other greenkey enthusiasts to do this work.  These could be translated into mp3 files to be stored on George's server for later listening/printing. Could be really neat!

Eugene



>-----Original Message-----
>From: George B. Hutchison [mailto:w7tty at readysetsurf.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 7, 2005 06:30 PM
>To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [GreenKeys] New Project
>
>GreenKeyers - - - 
> 
>I have been playing with a new project. 
> 
>You will have to go to www.winamp.com and download (for free) WinAmp 
>5.08 audio player. Real Player will also work, but I find WinAmp easier 
>to use. 
> 
>When you have WinAmp installed you can test it by going to 
>www.shoutcast.com and listen to one of the thousands of audio feeds 
>going out over the internet from all over the world. 
> 
>Once you have it running, if you click on the upper right the "FILE" 
>button, a pull-down will occur and you will see that the second option 
>is "Play URL". 
> 
>Click on it and a little window will appear asking for a URL to be 
>entered. Enter the numbers <207.207.72.32:8000> and see if you can hear 
>"The Quick Brown Fox" being transmitted with 2125 Mark and 2295 Space, 
>60 WPM five-level ITA#2. The Program Description Window in WinAmp will 
>say "Teletype News" 
> 
>The transmitted bit rate is 24 K, and the audio is 22,050 samples/sec, 
>mono. 
> 
>My upload bandwidth will allow about 32 or so "listeners" at the 24K 
>bitrate. I am going to find an encoder which will work at 16K bits/sec, 
>so that those with dial-up only will be able to have a continuous audio 
>string. Right now it is what it is. 
> 
>Am interested in what people think. The FCC shot one project down in 
>flames, but by using the internet they can't say anything, and it IS 
>worldwide. 
> 
>If it seems to be acceptable, we will install a new "Communications 
>Center" on WWW.RTTY.COM so you can just wander into the Comm Center and 
>hopefully select from a number of offerings. 
> 
>I will have this test running 24/7 for several days, and your comments 
>are encouraged 
> 
>73, 
> 
>George, W7TTY 
> 
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