[GreenKeys] 2022 Halloween Broadcast

[John, W9DDD]

low (EU) tones?

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You said "tomorrow" yesterday.

The above comments or recommendations are SWAG. Use at your own risk.
John, W9DDD

On 10/31/2022 2:00 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> Test messages for the first run begin shortly!
>
> As a result of me trying to do far too much at once, please be aware 
> of the following hiccups:
>
>   * The broadcast, not including test messages, will actually be about
>     two hours long (now with 400% more FREE!)
>   * I thought I could support USOS (unshift on space) this time, but
>     never mind-- best for those of you who have USOS mechanisms that
>     can be enabled to disable them, but if not, you shouldn't see
>     anything that'll materially mess up the broadcast anyway.
>
> If you care about WHY, see the following; if you only care about how 
> it affects you, TLDR above:
>
>   * Turns out I WILDLY miscalculated the length of the broadcast by
>     putting in one too many leading zeroes (good thing I'm not working
>     for NASA or Tesla, huh?). I was thinking 30 minutes was much too
>     short but didn't measure twice before I sent the email yesterday.
>   * I've been wanting to support USOS for several years now. If I was
>     retired and wasn't working for the bulk of most days, I probably
>     would have worked it out by now, along with a lot of other magical
>     teletypery. Without going into major detail, it's a matter of
>     fixing an algorithm to properly calculate how long to keep
>     transmitter running. Right now it tends to keep it open a bit
>     longer than it needs to but within the realm of reason, but adding
>     in extra, invisible shifts into the calculation either keeps it
>     open MUCH too long or not long enough. I have some ideas to move
>     away from the algorithm entirely and simply watch the stream for
>     when there's no more text, but that's a project for future me.
>     Yes, I know there's existing software that does all this
>     efficiently, but part of the fun was rolling my own to see what I
>     atrocities in bash I could come up with.
>
> Very sorry for the haphazardness. If I could do teletypery for my full 
> time occupation, I absolutely would.
>
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022, at 12:56 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>> Hi GK friends,
>>
>> It's that time of year again for the annual Halloween Broadcast. I'm 
>> a bit late in sending this out, so hopefully other plans won't 
>> conflict with being able to run your machines for a bit on Halloween.
>>
>> This year we're taking a slight detour from the tradition of a 
>> longer, single story sent as if from the main character with instead 
>> a few short spooky stories written by myself and another GreenKeys 
>> member, Tom Hunter. Also at the end will be one pix (no overstrike), 
>> something new created specially for this broadcast.
>>
>> Since it's shorter than all previous broadcasts, I'll send it twice 
>> on Monday (tomorrow), October 31, according to the following schedule:
>>
>>   * First run
>>       o 1:00 PM MST: Test messages including Halloween poems and
>>         songs every 15 minutes
>>       o 2:00 PM MST: Stories (will last roughly 30 minutes)
>>   * Second run
>>       o 5:00 PM MST: Test messages including Halloween poems and
>>         songs every 15 minutes (different than the first set if
>>         you're that into them and want to catch 'em all)
>>       o 6:00 PM MST: Stories (will last roughly 30 minutes)
>>
>>
>> The stream will be available at 
>> http://tty.nerdology.org:8000/halloween (right now this URL will 
>> result in a 404; you'll see that change around 15 minutes before the 
>> scheduled test messages). As before, simply use the same 
>> configuration you'd use for ITTY for this stream.
>>
>> Enjoy, and happy Halloween!
>>
>> -
>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
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>>
>
>
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