[Boatanchors] Ancient Wire Recorder and Recorded QSO

[howard holden]

Back in the 50s my dad had a wire recorder, he used it to record square 
dance sessions, as he played in the band. It looked similar to the one 
in Dave's video, but dad's also had a turns counter so he could find 
particular songs. There was a shaft and 90 degree gear setup from one of 
the reels to the counter, which was resettable to zero. Neat watching 
Dave's video seeing the pickup bar going up and down to evenly wind the 
wire on the takeup spool.  No idea what happened to it, I'm thinking it 
went out to the junk pile when tape recorders became more affordable.

Fidelity wasn't great, probably up to maybe 3KC or so, but I don't know 
if that was microphone related or a limitation of the wire. Anyone know 
what kind of wire was used? Maybe piano wire or similar?

Howie WB2AWQ


On 4/20/2018 6:45 AM, David Stinson wrote:
> How many of you have seen a wire recorder?
> This one is circa the years just after WWII.
> The wire reel contains a recording of a QSO
> between
> W5CDR and W5GSK "with the group" in Texas,
>   on what must be a local net with the RF gains
> down,
> since both stations sound like they are talking
> in the same room. Just for interest:
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphotos.app.goo.gl%2FtqHhDEwGTwR7EbGd2&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb8ca2bfab4a94a01eb6508d5a6c51c99%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636598287869580031&sdata=wSMlBUI%2FBCNEI04bCzX7LME8EksLw33UXXjoWJXpMQc%3D&reserved=0
>
> Any chance someone has a callbook from about
> 1946-1956 which might list these two stations?
>
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
>
>
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