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- From: davis@garlic.intellicorp.com (Nils Davis)
- Subject: query: programmable audio tape recorders
- Summary: Has anyone solved the "it's on the radio when I'm at work" problem?
- Message-ID: <davis.722109377@garlic>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:56:17 GMT
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- Keywords: radio tape recording audio
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- Over the years I've missed a lot of good folk music on the radio
- because I work during the times the shows are on. If the shows were on
- TV, I'd have no problem, because I could use my VCR to tape them.
- However, I don't have, and have never seen, a programmable audio tape
- recorder, even if the length of standard cassettes allowed taping an
- entire 1.5 to 2 hour radio show.
-
- Has anyone out there come up with a solution to this problem? Some
- possibilities might be: a) using a VCR to tape off the radio
- (somehow), b) putting some kind of timer on a standard cassette
- recorder, c) using a reel-to-reel recorder. Another future
- possibility is the use of Digital Compact Cassette (DCC) or Digital
- Audio Tape (DAT) recorders, some of which (judging from a picture in
- an ad in Scientific American) may have timers built in.
-
- I am lucky enough to have FM on my TV cable, which is attached to my
- VCR, which suggests that I'm pretty close to having option a) above.
- The question is how to make the VCR listen to FM frequencies (which
- are low bandwidth) rather than TV frequencies (which are high
- bandwidth). (Not that I've tried this yet -- the VCR is one of those
- types that only receives 13 channels. I must twirl pots by hand to
- set it to tune particular channels. It's possible I could receive FM
- just by doing this.)
-
- Anyway, if anyone has worked on this question, or worked it out, I'd
- like to hear about it.
-
- Please reply by mail and I'll collate and post a summary of responses.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Nils Davis ndavis@Intellicorp.com
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