[GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

[Nick]

Well, I love ITTY and definitely appreciate all the hard and time consuming daily work from everybody who is involved in this interesting system. I just can't imagine not having ITTY, the European channel and Autostart.

But if you guy's are looking for other opportunities/possibilities to use the heavy metal teletype machines, I would strongly recommend to look a bit deeper into the iTelex system. I know what you are thinking right now about the expenses to get the iTelex system running at your house, but it is actually not that bad ....... we are spending so many $'s on crapppppp - so what?

Another way to use the heavy metal is SMS (text messaging) - that's something I like to tackle. I know you can't send pics and smiley faces but I'm pretty sure that texting via an old teletype machine could be very interesting and enjoyable. Not 100% sure at the moment how many $'s you have to spend here but the answer will probably come very shortly from some other members with more experience.

Of course I am open to other ideas, new technologies and nifty fantasies to use the old heavy metal - BUT ONE THING IS FOR SURE, I DON'T WANT TO LOOSE ITTY !!!!!

Nick  -  N0NCQ
iTelex   212503



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-------- Original message --------
From: Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net>
Date: 8/21/19 6:39 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

Just curious about something. We know many people like and use ITTY. But it seems lately a fair (and growing) number of people don’t want ITTY. They want a different solution.

May I ask what people are seeking? Is it the desire to experiment (always fun and encouraged!), or the need for a private closed system with your own content, or the desire to avoid the RTTY/audio aspects of ITTY, or something else?

A number of us work hard to keep ITTY going as a reliable AFSK/RTTY type of capability. We need to keep tabs on what our listeners want and we need to be watchful for that day, should it come (egad!), when ITTY is no longer wanted or useful.

Paul
W2TTY

ITTY: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8000/ITTY<http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY>
AUTOSTART: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART<http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART>
EUROPE: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE<http://internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE>

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