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At 02:13 PM 2009-01-02, Anthony Baldwin wrote: >Thanks for putting me right on the composition of Magnetophonband Typ >C and L. This neatly explains why a retired German friend of mine has >always insisted that, as a Wehrmacht radio engineer attached to a >Soldatensender German forces station in late-1944, he used "plastic" >tape with his Lorenz-AEG machines to record broadcasts off-air from >Berlin. Just to clarify a little more...as I understand it, Lorenz and AEG were two separate companies -- at least at one point. The Audio Engineering Society has published a memoir of Semi Begun who worked for Lorenz as a youth and then came to the U.S.A. ahead of the Nazi terror. He was head of engineering for Brush and was behind the Brush Soundmirror and other recording devices that were more or less early "consumer grade" products. http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/begun1.html >Incidentally, being a 20-year-old swing fan he also used the >Wehrmacht's machines and elaborate antenna array to record Glenn >Miller's ABSIE broadcasts from England on 583kHz AM, at considerable >personal risk. Reception was apparently rock solid, and (ironically, >in view of the noiselessness of German recorded broadcasts) his off- >air tapes also captured the surface noise of the original transcription discs. Antenna science is somewhat of a lost art. My cyberfriend Bill Ruck is involved in restoring some marine radio sites in the San Francisco area. Apparently rhombic and beverage antennas are superb in digging out signals, as are some other topologies. Look at www.radiomarine.org http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx/antenna/wire/beverage/interview1.html Enjoy! Cheers, Richard Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX Detailed contact information: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.