Author: KanawhaCountyWX
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Forecast Improvements on ERN/KNA
We’ve now got Tom reading our forecasts. This is an absolute clusterfuck of a setup, it’s so damn scuffed. So Voxin doesn’t have a text2wav type utility, so what I have to have this do is create a virtual output device, record that for two minutes in another terminal, read the forecast, after two minutes…
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My Old SAGE 1822
Until May 2025 the endec that ran ERN/KNA was a SAGE 1822 graybox unit. These began production around 1996 and continued presumably until the introduction of the bluebox in 2008. This was a relay of a WBAP originated Texas AMBEr Alert on March 24, 2025. The unit is still around, but its likely broken now.…
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Period Correct 1997 EAS Recreation: Train Derailment Prompting Evacuation
I did my best to make this mockup as period correct as I could. The TTS engine is the National Weather Service variant of DECtalk, I used a period correct EAS encoder, and I even found a station ID from a station in the area from that time online. Admittedly, this alert would have likely…
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Why Do You Keep Crashing?
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I’ve increased the buffer, I’ve tried different APIs, I’ve disabled the power management stuff, I’ve tried different ports, different USB cables, etc, but you keep pulling this shit?
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Enabling Technologies Juliet Brailler from 1995: Still Going Strong
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All I’ve had to do was relubricate the mechanism inside this unit and fashion some new motor mounts for the carrage motor, but this beast still chuggs along. It’s being ran from a serial adapter connected to my Windows 11 laptop. This unit predates ET Speaks. My other embosser, a Romeo Attache, does have ET…
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Unrealistic EAS Mock: Disease
My best friend asked me to create an unrealistic EAS mockup several months ago, so I spat this out in about an hour. This was where I finally started to find my stride in mimicing the sound of broadcast radio, starting with AM. This is what made me develop my AM Radio macro for Audacity.…
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What Is JellyFish Love (2022)
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Made this mashup on a laptop while on a bus, cruising through the mountains of northern West Virginia in the summer of 2022. My mashup making skills were a lot worse at the time.
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MIDI Maehem: Casio CTK691 and a Cheap USB MIDI Interface (2021 Recording)
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While looking through my old hard drive for blog matterial, I came across a recording of trying to play MIDI files on my Casio CTK691 keyboard. Problem: at this point I had a very cheap USB to MIDI interface that was prone to glitching out. Not sure why, but it’d randomly stutter. Also, some tracks…