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1. The Jam Session went, um, interestingly. It started with a lot of fairly unstructured noise, and eventually devolved into the worst cover band in the world. However, "Summer of '69" is significantly improved with vocoded vocals. I think the session going to be re-thought (or perhaps split in two) next year. I'd rather see something along the lines of an Analogue Heaven event - more of a show and tell type activity, and maybe a separate session for the rock types.
2. My Blockparty submission (in the Freestyle Music category) came in not last place. w00t!
3. I managed to figure out GoatTracker (a tracker for making SID chiptunes) well enough to make a primitive song about four hours after the deadline for submissions. The best tutorial I found for it was strangely from an older revision of its Wikipedia entry. Maybe next year ;-)
4. N8JKD /AG baby! I passed my General Class exam! Not bad for starting to study on Monday... I took the Extra Class exam too, but failed it by a bit (I got 28/50, and needed 38 - not bad for taking that with no study whatsoever - it's hella hard). Hopefully it won't be another 20 years before I get around to it again!
That's all I've got for now. Maybe more later when I've actually gotten some real sleep.
2. My Blockparty submission (in the Freestyle Music category) came in not last place. w00t!
3. I managed to figure out GoatTracker (a tracker for making SID chiptunes) well enough to make a primitive song about four hours after the deadline for submissions. The best tutorial I found for it was strangely from an older revision of its Wikipedia entry. Maybe next year ;-)
4. N8JKD /AG baby! I passed my General Class exam! Not bad for starting to study on Monday... I took the Extra Class exam too, but failed it by a bit (I got 28/50, and needed 38 - not bad for taking that with no study whatsoever - it's hella hard). Hopefully it won't be another 20 years before I get around to it again!
That's all I've got for now. Maybe more later when I've actually gotten some real sleep.