Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-21 Thread John Small
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:09:33 -0800, Peter Jaques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say the program is 8-10pm tuesday wednesday. before you leave, set the RS timer to turn on at 7:59pm, put the R50 in rec-pause. set the 940 to turn on at 8pm *wednesday*. this way, every day the tuner turns on at 7:59.

Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-20 Thread David W. Tamkin
John Small wrote, | To be clear, I'm asking about a player only, not recorder. I have an | MZ-R50 that I paid $465 for when it first hit the market three years ago. | It has been wonderful. Now that I have a 940 deck with LP4 I want to use | that for time shifting radio. So I need a player.

Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-20 Thread John Small
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:43:24 -0600 (CST), "David W. Tamkin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so what you're recording must be longer than 2h40m but not no longer than 5h20m That's correct. Specifically two 2-hour programs (Diane Ream) on successive days ... otherwise when I'm at home between programs

Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Jaques
On 20 Feb 01, 11:16AM, John Small wrote: Yes, that's an interesting suggestion. I could purchase another Radio Shack timer and put the R50 on this ... ah, but nothing I see in the manual about time recording for the R50. Rats, if only the 510 sitting on my self was working (but if it was I

Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-20 Thread John Small
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:30:04 -0800, Peter Jaques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about this modification: buy the radio shack timer put your TUNER on it; set the r50 to synchro-record leave it in rec-pause. when the tuner turns on automatically, the r50 will start recording. then you can use

Re: MD: timer juggling (was best portable player)

2001-02-20 Thread Peter Jaques
On 20 Feb 01, 8:24PM, John Small wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. The timer will only do 24 hours and not by day. I need to record two hours one day and two the next and I will have to turn both on at the same time as I'll be away during that time period from time to time. actually, i