[GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype

John Spigel w1an.dxusa at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 22:09:57 EST 2024


Rob, I have several very simple shell scripts here for running the 
different ITTY sources or printing files for RazPi.

https://w1an.com/files/tty-shell-scripts

The ITTY for US runs continuously.
Maybe see if they are of use to you.

73, John W1AN

On 10-Nov-24 13:03, Rob Jarratt via GreenKeys wrote:
> Looks like curl -N should do the trick them without me having to write a 
> special program to keep it running. I wish I had checked the other feeds 
> before assuming curl just exits after every message!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rob
> 
> *From:*Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net>
> *Sent:* 10 November 2024 14:40
> *To:* rob at jarratt.me.uk; Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
> *Cc:* Hugh Pyle <hughpyle at gmail.com>; Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net>; 
> Mailing List Green Keys <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
> 
> That is strange that the Europe channel is ok and the ITTY channel is 
> not. I’d like to resolve this.
> 
> The ITTY channels each have a footer transmission after the main 
> transmission. Maybe the footers are different. I will look into this 
> later today.
> 
> Paul
> W2TTY
> 
> 
>     On Nov 10, 2024, at 1:52 PM, Rob Jarratt via GreenKeys
>     <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
> 
>     
> 
>     I have been trying these suggestions using curl to receive ITTY and
>     pipe it through lame and minimodem. It works well.
> 
>     However, I didn’t like that curl exits after every message. So, I
>     thought I would try to write my own code that keeps going, using
>     libcurl, which is what curl is built from.
> 
>     I discovered though that the ITTY feed does something strange and it
>     causes curl (and libcurl) to just silently exit at the end of a
>     message. It never reaches my cleanup code, it just dies. I thought
>     it was a problem with my code, but I don’t think it is, there is
>     something specifically wrong with http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY
>     <http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY> that cause curl to die. I have
>     been trying to work it out but have not found the issue yet. Is
>     anyone aware of anything peculiar about the ITTY feed? It doesn’t
>     seem to happen for the EUROPE feed, I am not sure yet about
>     AUTOSTART and it is able to repeatedly download other URLs
>     (www.example.com <http://www.example.com> for example).
> 
>     Thanks
> 
>     Rob
> 
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>     <mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net>> *On Behalf Of *Hugh Pyle
>     *Sent:* 07 October 2024 20:06
>     *To:* Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net <mailto:jeffg at junknet.net>>
>     *Cc:* Mailing List Green Keys <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>     <mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>>; rob at jarratt.me.uk
>     <mailto:rob at jarratt.me.uk>
>     *Subject:* Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
> 
>     Here are some aliases, which combine 'curl', 'lame' and
>     'minimodem'.   I haven't run these unattended for a while, and I
>     seem to remember there are dropout situations that will break them
>     easily - so you could then wrap everything in a loop if necessary. 
>     But they might make a good starting point for you.
> 
> 
>     alias autostart='curl -N -s http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART
>     <http://internet-tty.net:8030/AUTOSTART> | lame --decode --quiet --
>     mp3input - - | minimodem rtty -i -a -q -R 11025 -f -'
>     alias europe='curl -N -s internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE <http://
>     internet-tty.net:8040/EUROPE> | lame --decode --quiet --mp3input - -
>     | minimodem 50 -M 1275 -S 1445 -5 -i -a -q -R 11025 -f -'
>     alias itty='curl -N -s http://internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY <http://
>     internet-tty.net:8000/ITTY> | lame --decode --quiet --mp3input - - |
>     minimodem rtty -i -a -q --rx-one -R 11025 -f -'
> 
>     Hugh
> 
>     On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:15 AM Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net
>     <mailto:jeffg at junknet.net>> wrote:
> 
>         Vlc to get the stream, minimodem to decode.
> 
>         Jeff
> 
>          > On Oct 6, 2024, at 3:18 AM, Rob Jarratt
>         <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com
>         <mailto:robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
>          >
>          > Hello,
>          >
>          > Dave was asking this on my behalf, probably unaware that I am
>         on this list too.
>          >
>          > I have seen mention of ITTY Autostart etc and wondered about
>         receiving all this on my ASR 33.
>          >
>          > My thought was to see if I could set up a Raspberry Pi to
>         receive the audio signal over the internet, translate that to
>         ASCII and then send it to my ASR33. I already have the means to
>         connect my ASR33 from software running on a Raspberry PI or a PC
>         via reverse Telnet. The bit I am missing is what software (if
>         any) there might be that I could run on a Raspberry Pi, or
>         Windows that runs in the background (no GUI) to decode the ITTY
>         audio signal. I am a software developer though, so I guess if
>         such a thing doesn't exist then perhaps I can modify the MMTTY
>         code that is published on GitHub.
>          >
>          > Any pointers would be welcome.
>          >
>          > Thanks
>          >
>          > Rob
>          >
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>          >> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] ITTY to real Teletype
>          >>
>          >> Normally the ITTY service is fed to a piece of hardware
>         called a terminal unit
>          >> (think modem). The service is streaming as RTTY which is
>         normally sent over
>          >> amateur radio.
>          >>
>          >>
>          >> Jeff
>          >>
>          >>>> On Oct 5, 2024, at 5:34 PM, David Wade
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>          >>> I know there have been several USB to TTY boards produced,
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