[GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

[E.]

The National Weather Service (Emergency Alert System) uses location (same) codes for all areas of the U.S… most are county-specific.  A list can be found here:

https://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/info/usingsame.html

If it’s something in the future, this might be the best route - other than zip codes :) .


> On Aug 22, 2019, at 5:50 am, Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for all the warm thoughts and ideas. The interest is clearly high and ITTY will remain in production. Don‘t worry about that.  
> 
> I’m thinking about how to get the weather in the mix somewhere, probably on the autostart channel. 
> 
> Severe weather alerts could be send out Autostart as they occur. Maybe with a bell or two up front. That might be fun. Or would it be too much traffic? There might be lots of alerts on a given afternoon. We could try it and see.
> 
> Maybe weather at certain times of day as well. But what weather? Overall US weather? Weather for certain cities or zip codes? Maybe I let you add your zip code to a master list and weather for each of those zip codes is printed a certain time of day? 
> 
> I also think of an autostart channel for Europe but interest in ITTY type services from Europe is much less. There is a Europe channel in production but usage is low.
> 
> I am also planning a 100WPM channel at some point ... I just need to get some more equipment in the ITTY rack for it.
> 
> Keep your cards and letters, er... ideas and well wishes, coming.
> 
> And thanks to those who use the service. There is nothing more satisfying than happy listeners.
> 
> Paul
> W2TTY
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 21, 2019, at 6:37 PM, Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> AUTOSTART: HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8030/AUTOSTART
>> EUROPE:		HTTP://INTERNET-TTY.NET:8040/EUROPE
>> 
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