[GreenKeys] Halloween Broadcast 2020

Duncan Brown duncanancy at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 2 09:03:36 EST 2020 

Jordan,

Thanks for putting on the show!  Unfortunately my TT-98 bound up a week 
ago and I haven't had time to dig into it.

But you did make me look into "I am Legend".  I had never heard of it 
and don't know how I missed the movie or the original book, back in the 
1950s. But I did find the movie & watched it.

On Autostart, the standard is to generate a mark tone for a few seconds, 
before transmitting text.  That is how the TUs decide that there is a 
signal and turn on the printer. Some TUs give the choice of turning on 
with just the mark tone or with a FSK signal.  The "FSK" signal 
detection would detect nulls (BLANKS), but a TU (like the HAL ST-6) that 
only turns on on a steady mark may not.  So the best path is just to 
transmit 3-5 seconds of steady mark tone before sending the text.

Once I get my TT-98 running again, I'll go to your website & see if you 
have the recording of "I Am Legend" up so that I can copy it.

Thanks,

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 02-Nov-20 01:14, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> 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.
>
> -
> 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 <mailto: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 
>> <mailto:js at teletype.net>>
>> > To: GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
>> <mailto: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
>> > teletype.net <https://teletype.net> | GreenKeys Search Engine:
>> > teletype.net/gksearch <http://teletype.net/gksearch> 
>> <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
>> > SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: 
>> tty at nerdology.org <mailto:tty at nerdology.org>
>> > 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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>> <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
>> >     SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: 
>> tty at nerdology.org <mailto:tty at nerdology.org>
>>
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