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The time fast approaches for the third annual Halloween spookytime broadcast, this time an original story written for the teletype medium by yours truly, titled simply Lunatic.
Test messages including Halloween song lyrics and poems will be broadcast every quarter hour beginning at 2:00 PM MDT on October 31. The broadcast of the story itself will begin at 4:00 PM MDT, lasting about two hours. It will be streamed at
https://tty.nerdology.org:8000/halloween (note that accessing the link will result in a 404 error until 10 - 15 minutes before the first test message begins).
As in times past, it will be broadcast as if the narrator were sending the messages in realtime with gaps of silence between for the sake of adding a sense of realism to the event. Therefore, leveraging an autostart mechanism if you have one available is recommended.
Mark/space tones will be at the usual frequencies (2125 mark, 2295 space; 170 shift). If you are already set up to use the fantastic ITTY or AUTOSTART channels, the only thing you'd need to change in your configuration is the streaming URL.
There will be one pic at the end. No overstrike.
Unfortunately, due to a long period of my equipment being mostly inaccessible for testing and the lack of time to work on it in the first place, this broadcast, like previous ones, will also not be USOS-friendly (unshift on space). Because of this, those who have machines equipped with USOS are advised to disable the functionality or use a different machine for the best experience, though the story itself shouldn't be impacted if you can't. This inadequacy is at the top of my list to resolve whenever I am able to work on that list again.
Be sure to join the stream if you can, and be wary of looking directly at the moon during these dangerous and mysterious times.
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Jordan Spencer Cunningham