[GreenKeys] Halloween Broadcast Also Streaming at Standard 2125 Ma rk Freq

[Doug Alderdice]

A side benefit of the reversed tones and my TU set to "reverse" in my 
case was that in the absence of the mark tone from the feed my machines 
were held in the mark position and not running open, which would have 
happened if the tones were "right side up."  I don't have any autostart 
stuff in my setup so the machines would be thumping away running open 
between the reports.

Doug, KA2WFT


On 11/1/2019 6:58 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
> It may be due to the fact that the tones were reversed. As the 2125 
> stream was set up at the last minute I forgot that the software I use to 
> generate the tones (fldigi) by default is set to USB instead of LSB. But 
> most people seemed to be able switch their TUs accordingly to accomodate 
> for the reversed tones. I thought most if not all TUs had the ability to 
> reverse, but I've been drastically wrong before. I have yet to get a 
> real TU of my own, so someome fill me in. The 1313 stream was set 
> properly, though.
> 
> Sorry about that.
> 
> To be honest, this was a bit of a trial run to prep for the Santa 
> Tracker, which will be eight times as long. There are a lot of things 
> that went wrong at the last minute like this that I will be able to 
> watch out for next time.
> 
> I am glad many of you enjoyed it. It was fun to put together and fun to 
> host. There are many people who had questions for me-- I promise I will 
> get back to you in time. I think I've overworked myself with this and 
> have started feeling under the weather, so I'll be a bit delayed.
> 
> -
> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
> teletype.net <https://teletype.net>
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, at 10:58 AM, Mike Arrington wrote:
>> Did anyone else have trouble receiving the 2125/2295 version at 
>> http://tty.nerdology.org:8000/livetty-std?  My Heathkit HD 3030 would 
>> start my Model 15 and indicate a good signal, but the 15 just printed 
>> "garbage".  Restarting the stream didn't help.  When I switched to the 
>> ITTY site, it printed fine.  I switched back and forth several times 
>> and received the same results.  I started getting busy with 
>> Trick-or-Treaters and didn't get to diagnose the problem further.
>>
>> This was a great idea and look forward to trying again next year or 
>> maybe something at Christmas.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 9:12 PM Doug Alderdice <ka2wft at arrl.net 
>> <mailto:ka2wft at arrl.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Same here, and thanks for the last-minute work for us locked-in-2125
>>     folks.  Copy also was great, though I think I missed one dispatch
>>     with
>>     the Ethernet cable trip before I restarted my player.
>>
>>     Neat idea for Halloween.
>>
>>     73,
>>
>>     Doug, KA2WFT
>>
>>
>>     On 10/31/2019 9:58 PM, til128 at juno.com <mailto:til128 at juno.com> wrote:
>>     > Thank you, Jordan...
>>     >
>>     > Very much appreciated and enjoyed.
>>     >
>>     > Looking forward to Santa.
>>     >
>>     > Tom WB2TTY
>>     >
>>     > Please note: message attached
>>     >
>>     > 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 Also Streaming at
>>     Standard 2125  Mark Freq
>>     > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:26:05 -0600
>>     >
>>
>>     >
>>     > Sorry to those on the 2125 stream! I literally tripped over an
>>     ethernet
>>     > cable. It is back up, and I am leaving the premises so as to not
>>     cause
>>     > any more outages. That's what I get for last minute setups. You
>>     will
>>     > likely need to reload the stream to keep copying.
>>     >
>>     > -
>>     > Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>>     > teletype.net <http://teletype.net> <https://teletype.net>
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Jordan Spencer Cunningham wrote:
>>     >> A stream of the broadcast using standard frequencies (2125 Hz
>>     mark,
>>     >> 2295 space) is now up
>>     >> athttp://tty.nerdology.org:8000/livetty-std
>>     <http://tty.nerdology.org:8000/livetty-std> (test transmissions every
>>     >> ~15 minutes until the War of the Worlds broadcast at 4:00 PM
>>     Mountain
>>     >> Time).
>>     >>
>>     >> The original stream at 1313 will continue running without
>>     interruption
>>     >> for those who are already tuned in there.
>>     >>
>>     >> I can't fully test this new stream through the entire process
>>     due to
>>     >> time constraints, but so far everything looks to be working
>>     fine. Let
>>     >> me know if you run into any issues.
>>     >>
>>     >> Future broadcasts will not attempt to adjust the mark/space
>>     >> frequencies outside the norm. This was all in fun (13 being a
>>     >> gleefully macabre number traditionally), but I didn't realize
>>     >> adjustable TUs weren't as prevalent. This exposes my greenness
>>     for all
>>     >> to see, so please continue to reach out if you see a way for
>>     >> broadcasts to be more usable/accurate to the craft.
>>     >>
>>     >> -
>>     >> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>>     >> teletype.net <http://teletype.net> <https://teletype.net>