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03-24-07, 03:49 PM
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Grey Wolf
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[REL] Old time radio entertainment station
This will be an old time radio mod. It will be frequency 38, station 'Hollywood,' playing war time comedy, drama, mystery, very little music, and very very very rarely some news programs. I would estimate Roughly 90% of the files are played within 2 weeks of their actual broadcast date.
This station will be in operation from the beginning of the war until the end. Most all of the broadcasts are made at 20:00, but not all. Nearly all shows are 30 minutes in length. A new show is played every 1 to 2 weeks roughly, with several repeats of that broadcasts during that 1 to 2 week period. A typical schedule for a broadcast is first airing Sunday, then a repeat of that show on Wednesday. That is not always the case though as some shows start their rotation on a different date or get repeated a 3rd and 4th time depending on the availabilty of material for the month. Nearly 100% of shows run at least twice. The quality of volume is very good for most shows, but there are a few of them that have low volume and will be hard to hear without headphones or turning up the volume. After some testing to see if it's possible, I most likely plan on limiting the range of the station to just short of Japanese waters. This is up in the air though. There are 151 radio files making up this mod so the download will be quite large. You will need close to 1 gigabyte of space to use this mod - roughly 850 MB of space. Currently I can compress the package to about 370 MB using 7-zip, or I can split them using rar into 8 parts of 100MB each. I'm planning on uploading to filefront an initial version this weekend. Any subsequent changes would only need a new or edited txt/ini file to change the date of programs or increase/decrease the number of times a show is repeated. Last edited by tedhealy; 03-25-07 at 08:17 AM. |
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03-24-07, 04:24 PM
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Grey Wolf
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After some quick testing, the first change is that shows don't need to be repeated more than once per week. It's just over kill.
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03-24-07, 05:24 PM
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Grey Wolf
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And after a bit more testing, I've found repeating programs is a waste. A lot of time is spent in time compression making repeating programs not worth it. Now programs start every sunday night, except for a few special occasions like christmas and independence day.
Sometimes there's a program every sunday night, sometimes every other sunday, either way with time compression you won't have to wait very long to get a new program to start. Here's the program list Quote:
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03-24-07, 05:25 PM
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Grey Wolf
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03-24-07, 05:26 PM
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Grey Wolf
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03-24-07, 05:27 PM
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Grey Wolf
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03-24-07, 07:01 PM
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Grey Wolf
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Doing some tests in game with a radio station at Los Angeles' latitude and longitude, the power portion of the radio.ini line
Antenna=01.01.1930-01.01.2000:34.05,-118.22:100000 is in nautical miles. With my created radio station in L.A. and a power of 100, I had to sail to right off the coast within 100 miles of the the approximate latitude and longitude to tune in the station. You'll be able to tune to the frequency when out of range, but you'll get the static noise. Once you get within range, the station will come in. Cool thing was when I tuned it in, a program already in progress was picked up. Very realistic. A few changes before I get ready to upload this thing somewhere....I need to change the latitude and longitude to hollywood from LA, I need to put in and test a power that will feed this station to somewhere short of Japanese waters, and I might change the broadcast days from Sundays to the 1st, 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th considering there is no real way to know when sundays are in game. |
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03-24-07, 07:05 PM
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Sea Lord
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Cool stuff man, I hope your finger tips aint smokin from friction :p
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03-24-07, 11:29 PM
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Grey Wolf
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Here's the readme. I'll split it into 8 100 MB files and upload to filefront.
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03-25-07, 12:22 AM
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Stowaway
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How did you compress so well? I use the same program and could only compress 350 megs down to 300.
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03-25-07, 08:16 AM
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Grey Wolf
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 The files are uploaded, I'll get the links a few minutes and changes this to a [REL] RELEASE HERE http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...628#post462628 |
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