[GreenKeys] Halloween Broadcast 2020

Mon Nov 2 01:14:28 EST 2020

Thank you for the kind words, friends. It's a pleasure to put on, and I hope to do it for a long time.

Great suggestion, Doug. I want to make the broadcasts as accessible and usable as possible, such as making them USOS-friendly. Adding fiveish seconds seconds of NULs at the beginning would be among the easier fixes, so I'll plan on doing that for the next one if that will give some TU devices enough time to pick up on the signal.

If there are further suggestions or requests from anyone to make things work better for a particular setup, feel free to let me know. I may not always incorporate them, but chances are I will since 99% of people copying have vastly more experience in RTTY than I ever will.

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Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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On Sun, Nov 1, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Doug Alderdice wrote:
> I will add my thanks as well, along with a humble request.
> 
> My request is could there be a smidge more time at the start of a 
> transmission so autostart circuits can come to life and settle down? 
> The beginning of each Halloween transmission was garbled on my end 
> because the text would start almost immediately and my HAL ST-5000 
> autostart circuit needs a good 4-5 seconds to come to life and settle. 
> It seems to work well on the ITTY Autostart feed, however they do the 
> start-up of a transmission.
> 
> I noticed at the end of the Halloween transmissions there'd be a string 
> on nulls before ending, maybe there could be a short string of nulls at 
> the beginning?
> 
> Just some thoughts.  Thanks again for your efforts with these holiday 
> broadcasts.  I am looking forward to the Santa Tracker again this year.
> 
> 73,
> Doug, KA2WFT
> 
> 
> On 11/1/2020 9:49 AM, til128 at juno.com wrote:
> > Thank you Jordan for the second annual Halloween broadcast. Lots of fun.
> > Tom WB2TTY
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Original Message ----------
> > From: "Jordan Spencer Cunningham" <js at teletype.net>
> > To: GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> > Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Halloween Broadcast 2020
> > Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:46:37 -0600
> > 
> > One last reminder for the festive broadcast of /I Am Legend/ tomorrow. 
> > Details included in the quoted message below.
> > One note for those leveraging USOS (unshift on space): I had intended to 
> > configure the broadcast to be USOS-friendly, but this year it's 
> > everything I can do to keep up with the demands of my "real" job, and I 
> > just haven't had enough time to make the change and do ample testing. 
> > Best not to make any changes mere hours before something goes live, so 
> > I'm going to put that on hold, maybe get it fully fleshed out in time 
> > for the Santa Tracker this Christmas. *So if you have USOS and are able 
> > to disable it or use a different machine, consider doing so. *Still, it 
> > shouldn't mess with too much of the broadcast if not-- dates/times would 
> > get messed up, but I don't think much else would.
> > -
> > Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, at 11:33 AM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> > 
> >     Hello friends,
> >     Tune in on Saturday, October 31 for this year's Halloween broadcast:
> >     a specially adapted-for-teletype reimagining of /I Am Legend. /Test
> >     messages for calibration including Halloween songs and poems will be
> >     sent every half hour starting at 12:00 PM MDT to give enough time
> >     for anyone interested to jump onto the stream ahead of time. The
> >     actual broadcast will begin at 4:00 PM MDT and run for 2 - 3 hours.
> >     The stream will be accessible here:
> >     http://tty.nerdology.org:8000/halloween Note you'll get a 404 at
> >     this URL until shortly before the test messages begin on Saturday at
> >     12:00 PM MDT.
> >     There will be many instances of radio silence between messages, so
> >     it's advised to leverage autostart if you have it equipped.
> >     Hope to see you on the stream. Bring a wooden stake and some garlic,
> >     just in case.
> >     -
> >     Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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> >     teletype.net/gksearch <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
> >     SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: tty at nerdology.org
> 
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