R T E - - - RTE To Everywhere Last updated 1994 September 6 (new RTE Satellite, etc. information). This area is an EXPERIMENTAL demonstration project run by volunteers. Its aim is to assess the viability of making small segments of broadcasts from RTE, the Irish National Radio service, available on the internet via anonymous ftp and the World Wide Web. There are currently two programs recorded: RTE Radio 1 "Morning Ireland" 8AM News (7 minutes weekdays, 5 minutes weekends) and RTE Radio 1 Nuacht (news in the Irish language, 3 minutes). The latter have filenames prefixed with "nuacht_". Sites for these files are in the following places: * North Carolina: http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/gaelic.html or ftp to sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/languages/gaelic/Rte/ (sunsite can handle 250 simultaneous anonymous ftp users) * Virginia: http://orangutan.cv.nrao.edu/sounds/rte/ or ftp to orangutan.cv.nrao.edu:/pub/sounds/rte/ (only 5 simultaneous anonymous ftp users here!) * UK/Europe: http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/~iarla/ (for those of you out of range of RTE, of course; see below). * Australia: ftp to pell.anu.edu.au:/pub/obrien/latest.au (copied at 18:45 EST Australian M-F, takes 30+ mins to copy; also nuacht_latest.au) * Scandinavia: ftp to ftp.medcom.se:/pub/rte/latest.au and lateswav.zip only. Updated at noon CET, files accessible by 12:30. Site is experimental, may be withdrawn without notice. * Western North America: not yet :-( contact me if interested in setting a mirror site up... Acknowledgements, restrictions, etc: Many thanks to Iarla Kilbane-Dawe for setting up the UK/Europe mirror and surviving the debugging of my shell scripts! Only the latest files are available at the Australian and UK/Europe sites. The service is pretty much "as is" so please don't complain to Iarla or Eamonn O'Brien if there are problems. This *is* volunteer/experimental! * Users in the RTE listening area are asked to please use their radios. Your cooperation in conserving the bandwidth on the transatlantic and other internet links will be appreciated. ======================================================================== | In Europe, RTE Radio 1 is available on the ASTRA 1B satellite on | | the ASTRA 1B satellite (channel 22, one of the MTV Europe channels, | | 11.538 vertical; audio channel corresponding to 7.56 Mhz). You can | | hear 2FM on it from 00:50 to 06:30 [Irish time]. | | In the US, there are 3.5 hours of RTE on WRN (World Radio Network) | | daily on an audio sub-carrier (6.8 MHz) of the Turner WTBS channel | | on GALAXY 5 (125 degrees west) Transponder 6, 3820 MHz, vertical. | | This may also be obtained on ASC1 (128 degrees west) Transponder 23,| | 4160 MHz, horizontal, audio subcarrier 6.2 MHz. | | WRN is also carried on some cable systems: Rogers Cable in Vancouver,| | Canada; and on systems in Nebraska, Texas, Mass., and Minnesota. | | C-SPAN now carries WRN on its Audio Networks too. | | WEVD (1050 AM) in New York, will carry RTE news in its daily Irish | | programme effective October 1994. | | More details can be found in file 0_RTE_SATELLITE.txt here. | ======================================================================== If you enjoy these files, please express your appreciation via email; any letters of support will help us! Send them to . The format of most of the files is Sun u-law with the date in the name, e.g. "19940322.au" for the March 22, 1994 rte file, "nuacht_19940728.au" for the July 28, 1994 nuacht (as gaeilge) file. Also, you can get: latest.au always points at the latest audio file latest.au.shn Compressed version of latest.au (see ../shorten/*) latest_g723.au CCITT G.723 compressed format using ADPCM. latest.wav RIFF .WAV format, copy of latest.au latestwv.zip ZIPped (PKzip compatible) version of latest.wav. (Prefix with "nuacht_" for the nuacht version, e.g. nuacht_latest.wav). Generally, there will be about a weeks' worth of files here, and each one will be BIG (about 0.5 megabytes per minute). Please exercise restraint with these large files! The ZIPped WAV file is usually quite a bit smaller, as is the "shortened" AU file. Smallest of all is the CCITT G.723 compressed file, which can be directly read into the SunOS 5 version of "audiotool". Please use them if you can (see 0_PLAYERS.txt for info about players, and the ../shorten/* files). The rte files are placed in this area at about 4:30am EST/EDT while the nuacht files are placed here at about 4:30pm EST/EDT (both uploaded to sunsite almost immediately). Sometimes things do not work and "latest" will remain pointing at the files of the previous day. We *did* say this was experimental! If demand for these files is too great (i.e. interferes with my ability to get work done and bring home a paycheck), this area may only be accessible during non-office hours (i.e. outside about 8am-4pm EST/EDT). So far, there have been no problems (good on ye!)... If anyone in the following locations (or elsewhere!) would care to set up a mirror ftp site, please contact Pat Murphy: North America west coast, Continental Europe, Japan. This experiment was made possible by Liam Relihan (relihanl@ul.ie, Univ. of Limerick), Aengus Lawlor (rbyaml@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com, working for Digital at Rohm & Haas, formerly of Dublin Institute of Technology), Mark Riordan (Mark.Riordan@cs.tcd.ie, Trinity College Dublin), and Pat Murphy (pmurphy@nrao.edu, Nat'l Radio Astronomy Observatory, formerly University College Dublin). Thanks also to Eamonn O'Brien for the mirror site down under, to Shawn Mehan for the Sunsite mirror, and Iarla Kilbane-Dawe for the UK mirror. The experiment is humbly dedicated to the thousands of ex-pat net residents who hunger for the sounds of "home".