| Title: | You get surface noise in real life too |
| Notice: | Let's be conformist |
| Moderator: | GOVT02::BARKER |
| Created: | Thu Jul 28 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 550 |
| Total number of notes: | 3847 |
I am seeking an arrangement to permit me to record the occasional program from
an FM tuner on to cassette tape at some preprogrammed time in the future,
pretty much as I would record a TV program with my video recorder. The timing
would need to be accurate to quartz clock precision to enable me to record
something a week ahead with an accuracy of say plus/minus a minute at worst.
The conventional wisdom from hifi retailers seems to indicate that purchase of
another tuner and/or integrated midi system is necessary. Alternatively I am
informed that you "used to be able to buy special timers but they don't sell
them anymore" !!.
Either way the solution is either expensive or apparently no longer attainable.
Switching the mains seems to be the way forward, possibly using a converted
central heating timer, but this seems like a fair bit of work for a problem
which MUST already have a neat solution.
Are such hifi or general purpose timers genuinely unavailable or am I missing
something ?
Duncan
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| 245.1 | Same problem, two alternatives | HAMPS::STEPHEN_I | Production Systems Marketing Group | Wed Jan 02 1991 17:13 | 19 |
Duncan,
I'm trying to set up the same kind of thing at the moment, and have
come up with two alternatives :
1: A mains timer from Argos (@10 Pounds) with the cassette deck and
tuner connected to it. Set up the tuner and cassette, and set the
timer and away you go, but the timer isn't very accurate.
2: Buy a ghetto blaster with a time built-in, to record the programs.
Then replay the cassettes through the main system. I looked at a
Hitachi blaster today with a single deck, am, fm, lw tuner and quartz
timer all for 56 pounds.
I'm going to opt for the second option. Its more accurate, compact
and as the things I want to record are mainly for the car, the
recording quality doesn't worry me too much.
Iain
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| 245.2 | SIEVAX::LAW | Mathew Law, SIE (Reading, UK) | Wed Jan 02 1991 18:07 | 7 | |
You can get timers from Argos (or similar) which have a digital timer
rather than the usual mechanical one. I think that they're about 18
pounds. This should provide all the accuracy that you need.
Mat.
*:o)
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| 245.3 | Alternatively | HAMPS::LINCOLN_J | Where sheep dare | Thu Jan 03 1991 13:43 | 5 |
A VCR which has audio input recording capability, ie. NICAM will do this and record with immense fidelity. Might have to re-record to audio cassette later of course. -John | |||||
| 245.4 | Problem solved | YOUNGS::BABER | Duncan Baber REO D1/3H DTN:830-3770 | Fri Jan 04 1991 08:18 | 6 |
Many thanks for all the suggestions.
I am now the owner of a digital timer purchased from Argos. This seems
to fit the bill nicely
Duncan
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