My interest in buying what DAK Industries refers to as a “phone tap” is not so much spooking, but getting a reasonable cassette-tape record of a phone interview once my subject has agreed to let me tape the conversation. My previous experience with one of those suction-cup mikes was dismal. But the Tele-Recorder 150, which simply plugs into the phone jack (if you don’t have an extra one, just get a “duplex adaptor jack,” available from DAK for only $2), does the job. Most hand-held cassette recorders will connect to it. The recordings I get from phone interviews are now more reliable than the tapes yielded from face-to-face sessions, particularly when my subject is a mumbler.
Incidentally, this was my first experience in dealing with DAK, whose direct-mail ads you have probably seen. Service was prompt,
