[GreenKeys] ITTY from Arvada testing

[Paul Heller]

Update:

The higher audio level has been reported as a success.

I have determined that the content I was sending had non-baudot characters in it, which was certainly causing strange print. 

Our friend Tom Tillson has given me 12 clean messages. I have set Arvada ITTY to loop on those 12 message over and over, and not load anything else new into it’s queue, until we are all sure that it is working well.

Test away again and let me know! I think we're nearly there.

I’ve learned to appreciate just how smart George Hutchison and Bill Bytheway were when they created all of this originally. 

Thanks again to all who are helping by testing and diagnosing.

Paul - W2TTY




> On Jul 15, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have received some very helpful feedback from many of you. It is MUCH appreciated. I stand grateful for it.
> 
> I am going to making some changes, one item at at time, to see if things can be improved.  I don’t want to change several things at once because then we can’t measure it. You will see the Arvada ITTY feed go offline as I do this. I will keep you posted.
> 
> The immediate three things I was to try are:
> 
> 1. Adjust the signal level. Thanks to AE5CZ
> 2. Increase the bitrate. It is currently at 16. Might be too low
> 3. Make sure my script that grabs the news from USATODAY and BBC is only capturing pure ASCII and not erroneously sending out FIGURES.
> 
> George looked at the signal in MMTTY and saw that it wanders off frequency.  I’ll need to figure that out. It could be an encoding problem or a hardware problem. George and I are going to compare settings between our two servers, hopefully in the next day or so.
> 
> Change #1 will be done NOW. Expect the ITTY feed to drop for a moment.
> 
> If you have time, could you test?
> 
> 73,
> Paul, W2TTY
> 

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