I still have an old SONY and an old WEBCORE around here somewhere.

Their was just something about r2r that had a sort of magic.

73 De Anthony W2AJV
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob -- KA5ETA" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: QST on Reel to Reel


> Mike you are sure dating yourself.  I had not heard the Voice of Music
name
> in over 20 years.  I learned my first CW on a wire recorder.  But I did
not
> get my ticket at that time something called girls came in to my life.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:24 PM
> Subject: QST on Reel to Reel
>
>
> > Yes, it was on 7 inch reels at 3 and 3/4 ips speed.
> >
> > They were two track, and were originally read by the Telephone Pioneers,
> and
> > produced by Science for the Blind. The recording division later became
> > Recorded Periodicals.
> >
> > The first issue of QST I ever read was January, 1967, which I received
in
> > early summer of that year from Science. I remember that it contained an
> > article about a new way to tune a Swan 350 transceiver. My Elmer, and
> later
> > I too, had a Swan 500. Talk about a big time rig!
> >
> > The tapes were shipped in reversible cardboard mailers, king size
versions
> > of the cassette mailers which Tom Carten uses for World Radio. Some of
> them
> > had no straps, and had to be re-fastened with new tape each time they
were
> > mailed.
> >
> > I had an old Voice of Music recorder which had no fast forward.
Therefore,
> I
> > had to read the entire track.
> >
> > While I learned a lot that I would have otherwise skipped, there was
also
> > some pretty dull stuff there for a 12-year-old!
>