[Vintage-Audio] Re Record Changer Speeds

[W8DBF D.B. Fischer]

(LOL!) Way to go Robert! Now that was quite a clever way for a lad of young 
years to slow down the code practice sessions! I love it!

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Nickels" <w9ran at oneradio.net>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Record Changer Speeds


> Tim Keener wrote:
>> Inroduction of these microgroove discs were for the blind, the 
>> illiterate, and those too lazy to read for themselves.
>>
> But the availability of the  16 2/3 RPM speed on record players of that 
> era proved to be too tempting for this 10 year-old Boy Scout trying to 
> learn Morse Code from an Ameco study course that was recorded at 33 1/3 
> RPM!   After the instructor found out I'd memorized most of it from 
> playing at half speed, I was introduced to the Farnsworth Method!
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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