RE: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
Along with the other Volunteers - I'd like to offer my services in regard to restoring and preserving old audio recordings. I have over 20 years professional experience, and a lifetime of messing around with, audio and music electronics. I'm recently retired from 20 years in the film business, all in post-production, the last 10 years as Chief Engineer, MGM Studios. I have always maintained a 'personal' studio (or two), and I continue to do media restoration and recovery for lots of clients worldwide. I can play anything from Edison cylinders on up, and I've made a specialty of restoring damaged media - broken records, partially erased tapes, water/smoke damge, etc etc. I'd be very pleased to offer whatever help I can be toward the preservation efforts of our history and legacy. So if you've got any old cassettes, tapes, wires, or discs, etc., etc., I would like to join the folks here who have generously offered to help with this. I have pile of machinery and devices, and an extensive suite of restoration products, generally as ProTools plugins, and can deliver the Results as downloadable files, or of course CDs or DVDs. Contact me off-list is there's anything I can do to help out. Cheers John KB6SCO Carson City DM09fg __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
Re: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
Circut City carries a record player with a USB output port and software to burn a CD in your computer. Dave, W3ST Publisher of the Collins Journal Secretary to the Collins Radio Association www.collinsra.com - the CRA Website Now with PayPal CRA Nets: 3.805 Mhz every Monday at 8 PM EDST and 14.253 Mhz every Saturday at 12 Noon EDST Collins Chatroom - Daily at 4 PM EDST on 7.203 Mhz - Original Message - From: "A.R.S. - W5AMI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 10:36 PM Subject: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation There are bound to be some folks out there who have possession of vintage on-the-air recordings from the 60', 70' and 80's, maybe even earlier. I know at one time Otis (K5SWK) had many, and some dating back into the 50's. If these exist, they should not be allowed to deteriorate or be overwritten before first getting them on digital for preservation, either on the web or CD/DVD. I propose that if you know of any such recordings, we somehow get these copied. I would be willing to do some of them myself. Any other takers? It would be nice to have such a nostalgic and historic resource for QSOs forgotten placed on a website or available on CD. Gary at amfone.net might be willing to utilize space for such media, or I would be willing to dedicate webspace for the project...gigs if needed. Let's get together on this and try to gather what we can for now and the future! Anyone have contact with Otis lately? John/BXO? I know he used to mention on the air that he had quite a library of tapes, however that has been a long time ago. I have also posted a message similar to this on amfone.net... Brian / w5ami -- "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense." -- Frank Lloyd Wright __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
RE: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
I see Otis from time to time still I will give him a call and see if we can dig up some of the old recordings. I have the equipment to do the transfer to digital. I do it all the time for customers. John, WA%BXO __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
Re: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
It would be really good to try to include some recordngs from the 1940s and 1950s though I suspect they will be much more difficult to obtain. > There are bound to be some folks out there who have possession of > vintage on-the-air recordings from the 60', 70' and 80's, maybe even > earlier. I know at one time Otis (K5SWK) had many, and some dating > back into the 50's. If these exist, they should not be allowed to > deteriorate or be overwritten before first getting them on digital for > preservation, either on the web or CD/DVD. > > I propose that if you know of any such recordings, we somehow get > these copied. I would be willing to do some of them myself. Any > other takers? > > It would be nice to have such a nostalgic and historic resource for > QSOs forgotten placed on a website or available on CD. Gary at > amfone.net might be willing to utilize space for such media, or I > would be willing to dedicate webspace for the project...gigs if > needed. > > Let's get together on this and try to gather what we can for now and the > future! > > Anyone have contact with Otis lately? John/BXO? I know he used to > mention on the air that he had quite a library of tapes, however that > has been a long time ago. > > I have also posted a message similar to this on amfone.net... > > > Brian / w5ami > > -- > "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense." -- Frank Lloyd Wright > __ > AMRadio mailing list > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net > __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
Re: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
On 9/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: been very interesting. Many, many AM signals, lots of hetrodynes - all would have sounded a lot different from today. Your suggestion to preserve, and make available online, samples of past ham activity is a really great idea! I'm the same way about my old ham magazines Steve. I will get a stack of them from the bookcase and sit for hours reading through them, almost to the point where I sort of feel like I'm back in time. The other day I was looking at some real old family photos my father got from his father many years ago. It occurred to me that I needed to get all of them scanned and placed on multiple DVD or CDs, maybe even put some in the safety deposit box. Somehow, I switched gears while thinking about the photos and thought about all the ham recordings that have been made over the years and wondered how many were still out there somewhere, and how to go about getting them. If they do exist, it would be a shame to not do something with them. __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
Re: [AMRadio] Vintage recordings and preservation
Brian wrote: >vintage on-the-air recordings from the 60', 70' and 80's, maybe even earlier. I enjoy reading old ham magazines. As I read, I've often wondered how the bands sounded years ago. I imagine the CW bands sounded much the same, except more crowded (like I remember the 40m novice band when I started in the mid 70s), but what about the phone bands? The other day I was reading about an island DXpedition in the 50s that concentrated on phone. The pileups must have been very interesting. Many, many AM signals, lots of hetrodynes - all would have sounded a lot different from today. Your suggestion to preserve, and make available online, samples of past ham activity is a really great idea! Steve WD8DAS [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ AMRadio mailing list List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net
