OT and getting further OT all the time!

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

John Foust said:

> At 03:32 PM 2/11/2005, John Lawson wrote:
 > > but to tie this wierdly back in - one member of Greenkeys is currently broadcasting news text (mostly VOA feeds) via 45.45 speed Baudot over Shoutcast/Winamp.
> 
> Hams are a dying breed.  They talk about stuff you haven't had to worry
> about for decades.  They may not be up on the latest developments,
> this clever hack notwithstanding.

Not *just* hams. As I sit here typing I can see on the screen an incoming
NAVTEX broadcast aimed at shipping.  These broadcasts are in mode B SITOR,
a 100 baud system, and are transmiited on 518KHz.  Just to get a bit nearer
on topic, I'm watching it using a 1960 receiver and a terminal unit that
dates back over 10 years connected to the 386 I use as a print server, to
which I telnet and run minicom on the server...  
-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

The future was never like this!