[GreenKeys] Santa Tracker 2025

[Doug Alderdice]

LOL, love it, Jordan ...  I've been known to assume that stance myself 
as pictures are forming on the machine!

Thanks for once again providing this important service, I just started 
up my own setup here to keep track of the big guy.

Doug KA2WFT


On 12/23/2025 9:16 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> My kids and the neighbor kids are enjoying the pix coming through and 
> building up excitement for when the tracking begins. This is the moment 
> they realized the art coming through was a train by looking at it sideways.
> 
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
> teletype.net <https://teletype.net> | GreenKeys Search Engine: 
> teletype.net/gksearch <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
> SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: tty at nerdology.org
> 
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025, at 2:31 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>> The stream is now live! First test message to be sent in 30 minutes.
>>
>> Merry Christmas, 73,
>>
>> -
>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>> teletype.net <https://teletype.net> | GreenKeys Search Engine: 
>> teletype.net/gksearch <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
>> SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: tty at nerdology.org
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025, at 11:02 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>>> It's that time of year again for all good little boys and girls to 
>>> follow Santa's journey around the globe through the peak of 
>>> communications innovation: the teleprinter.
>>>
>>> For the uninitiated, this is an ITTY-like broadcast wherein reports 
>>> of where Santa was sighted and the circumstances of that sighting are 
>>> broadcast periodically. Our eyewitness reports provide a unique, 
>>> intimate tracking experience particularly enjoyed by kids aged one to 92.
>>>
>>> Tune in whenever you can at http://tty.nerdology.org:8080/santatrack 
>>> <http://tty.nerdology.org:8080/santatrack> using the same 
>>> configuration as you would for standard ITTY 
>>> <https://www.rtty.com/itty/index.htm> autostart. NOTE: this URL will 
>>> result in a 404 error until 15 - 30 minutes before the first test 
>>> message on December 23rd.
>>>
>>> The schedule will be as follows:
>>>
>>>   * *December 23, 3:00 PM MST *- A test message followed immediately
>>>     by a Christmasy RTTY art (some pix will have overstrike) will be
>>>     broadcast every hour on the hour for this and the following 11
>>>     hours, which should give all global time zones some chance to
>>>     tune in before tracking starts. Print one, print them all. My
>>>     kids particularly enjoy coloring these on Christmas Eve.
>>>   * *December 24, 3:00 AM MST *- Based on prior timetables, we expect
>>>     Santa to begin his journey and the reports of sightings to start
>>>     coming in around this time
>>>   * We will track Santa for the following ~24 hours with these brief
>>>     messages likely rolling in roughly every 10 - 20 minutes
>>>     dependent upon how the sightings go this year. You may consider
>>>     keeping a good ol' fashioned globe or atlas handy to follow along.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not to get into the weeds, but while I have attempted supporting USOS 
>>> (unshift on space) for the past few years, I am again unable to 
>>> support it this year due to a bug I found in the implementation of 
>>> USOS in the software I use to generate tones (fldigi) for which I 
>>> can't compensate, and the fact that I have been wholly unable to 
>>> devote any time to migrating to minimodem with having everything in 
>>> storage all year while I work on finishing up the Teletype Barn. I 
>>> still have to dig out some equipment just to track Santa this year.
>>>
>>> Anyway, those who have USOS on receive enabled, if you can disable 
>>> it, that's advisable, though if not, it should only be a minor 
>>> inconvenience, manifesting mainly in timestamps not printing correctly.
>>>
>>> Merry Christmas, 73,
>>>
>>> -
>>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>>> teletype.net <https://teletype.net> | GreenKeys Search Engine: 
>>> teletype.net/gksearch <https://teletype.net/gksearch>
>>> SMS via teletype: 385-308-4898 | Email via teletype: tty at nerdology.org