[GreenKeys] New Project
Veenstra, Lester
Lester.Veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com
Mon Feb 14 15:17:44 EST 2005
I am off on a one week trip. On return I will see what is best way to do
the computer capture. Safest way may be a standalone mod 28 TD. Not
sure I want to trust these to the 14 TD, and getting the 28ASR or the
32ASR out and running may be more effort than I wan at this point in
time. But an 28TD would be easy to make look enough like rs-232 to get
into the windoz machine. I assume software to do that is around. Or
just generate AFSK directly and record that. Lets see what looks
good.
Any standalone 28TDs available on loan in the Frederick-Bethesda Rt 270
corridor?
Lester Veenstra
Senior Engineering Program Manager
Intelsat General
6550 Rock Springs Drive, Suite 450
Bethesda Maryland, 20817
+1-301-571-1212
e-mail: lester.veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugene Hertz [mailto:ehertz at tcaf.org]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:27 PM
To: Veenstra, Lester; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] New Project
A while back ago, when we were all discussing the best ways to "save"
our RTTY art for posterity, I made a suggestion that we simply convert
to an digital audio file and note the shift and speed. I still think
this could be viable. Afterall, even if mp3 goes the way of the dodo,
one could convert to the new audio format of choice. Heck, if necessary
one can always store on audio CD or even tape!
Lester, if you could run your tapes through a TD and a TU and record the
output, I could convert and put the files as mp3 up on my website to
test the idea. If George wanted to make them available for the new
project, I could give them to him. But it might be a neat test in the
interim. Anyone with winamp or even windows media player (or any mp3
player) could play them.
Here's an extension of the idea. Imagine collecting a lot of old news
tapes and organizing them by year (each directory could be one year).
Then one could even make a playlist to dump all the stories for that
year, or you could pick and choose the story you wanted.
And yet another idea: Imagine setting up a demonstration somewhere...
One could load these mp3's onto an ipod or any one of a number of
personal music players. Then run that into a TU and voila! Instant
recreation of a historical news moment!
Any way, just some random thoughts...
Eugene
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Veenstra, Lester [mailto:Lester.Veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 02:15 PM
>To: 'Eugene Hertz', 'George B. Hutchison', greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] New Project
>
>I knew the was I reason I was saving that box of tapes! Now to dig then
>out and see what I really have.
>Hope the mod 14 TD does not eat them!
>
>Lester Veenstra
>Senior Engineering Program Manager
>Intelsat General
>6550 Rock Springs Drive, Suite 450
>Bethesda Maryland, 20817
>+1-301-571-1212
>e-mail: lester.veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eugene Hertz [mailto:ehertz at tcaf.org]
>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:10 PM
>To: Veenstra, Lester; Eugene Hertz; George B. Hutchison;
>greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] New Project
>
>Exactly! How cool would it be to get some "period" news that one might
>have seen actually coming off a teletype?! Afterall, who wants to see
>news of Britney Spears come off a teletype?... but Nixon?! Great stuff
>Eugene
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Veenstra, Lester [mailto:Lester.Veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com]
>>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 01:38 PM
>>To: 'Eugene Hertz', 'George B. Hutchison', greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] New Project
>>
>>I think I may still have 5 level paper tapes punched during the Nixon
>>resignation day from UPI or AP HF feed.
>>
>>Lester Veenstra
>>Senior Engineering Program Manager
>>Intelsat General
>>6550 Rock Springs Drive, Suite 450
>>Bethesda Maryland, 20817
>>+1-301-571-1212
>>e-mail: lester.veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>>[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Eugene Hertz
>>Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:42 AM
>>To: George B. Hutchison; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] New Project
>>
>>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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