From dfischer at usol.com  Sat Jul 16 16:42:28 2011
From: dfischer at usol.com (Duane Fischer, W8DBF)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:42:28 -0400
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] OT - Hurst Nationals
Message-ID: <00f801cc43f8$e78b05a0$c554e8cc@hpdc5100mt>



Hi All,

Once upon a time I owned a brand new copy of the Hurst Nationals as recorded 
somewhere in California. Some really nasty AA fuel dragsters with maybe a 
Funny Car thrown in from time to time just to keep you alert! Awesome 
thunder! One could almost smell the smoke from those huge slicks burning.

Someone, probably my little brother, borrowed my beloved vinyl album. I have 
never been able to locate another copy since.

My searches of all the local vintage record album stores have turned up 
nothing of use. Once I did come upon an empty jacket, but no vinyl album! 
Did not even smell like a smoking slick, just musty as heck! Took the blind 
dudes super sensitive nose a week to shake off the mold in my nasal 
passages!

I do not know how many years that some enterprising soul recorded the Hurst 
Nationals. But I would sure love to have a copy to play through my H.H. 
Scott LK-72B and James B. Lansing Century L-100 speakers! I get an adrenalin 
rush just thinking of how it will feel when the plaster on these walls 
breaks loose and showers down on me like the dirt used to when I was racing 
Go-Carts on an oiled down oval dirt track! Man could that bored and stroked 
McCulloch MC6 that was ported, polished, had the crankcase stuffed, fuel 
carb +++ wind up the rpm's! About 18,000 of them! My ears rang for three 
hours after I took the crash helmet off! You have not lived until your butt 
is one inch off the asphalt and going from zero to seventy miles per hour in 
one hundred feet or less!

As old and crazy as I am, I would like to take a few more laps around that 
track! Since I am totally blind now, it might be my last lap too! But what a 
rush dude!

So if any of you know where I can obtain some of those 33 1/3 rpm Hurst 
National recordings please let me know.

For what it is worth: The album I had was circa 1963. Possibly 1964. I 
remember seeing the cover prior to losing my sight on October 21, 1964. 
Maybe that info would be helpful in locating the album that I had. Maybe 
not.

I know that Big Daddy Don Gartlits (sp?) made a run, as did Color Me Gone, 
The Ram Chargers etc.

Thanks.

Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net


From dfischer at usol.com  Thu Jul 21 16:27:41 2011
From: dfischer at usol.com (Duane Fischer, W8DBF)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:27:41 -0400
Subject: [Vintage-Audio] OT - VHS TO DVD Recording
Message-ID: <00c901cc47e4$a633ccf0$c754e8cc@hpdc5100mt>



Hi All,

Sorry for the off topic post, but frankly you subscribers seem to have all 
the answers to my audio/video questions!

Keeping in mind that I am totally blind, but quite familiar with both audio 
and video replication, I have a question.

I absolutely must convert some VHS tapes to a DVD format. Now I am aware of 
some machines that are quite easy to use that make reasonably good copies of 
VHS tapes to DVD discs. Are such VHS to DVD copying machines at all like the 
cassette tape to CD or DAT to CD or CD to DVD copying decks?

I am hoping that I can do the bulk of the replication myself Not a case of 
vanity, more like there is seldom anybody around my QTH that is available 
long enough to assist me with such duplication! So I learned years ago to do 
my own audio duplication through a variety of electronic trickery and 
auditory cues. I also did some limited VHS film editing by using auditory 
cues etc.

What I need to do now is to remove VHS news media clips of myself, video 
shot live on super 8 Mm and convert all of it into DVD clips that I can 
access at will.

I have been told, and I do not know how accurate this is, that it is about 
as easy as copying one VHS tape onto a blank cassette or the like.

Some of what I need to transfer to DVD is straight forward, as the entire 
sixty minute VHS commercial film gets copied. No 'looking' for the right 
spot to start or stop.

What would you experienced VHS to DVD duplication guys suggest for a totally 
blind guy to use?

Thanks.


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net


