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Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 5:01am. #
Earlier this week, I posted an article that mentioned that Hong Kong’s DAB tests are currently coming from iPods.
It seems they weren’t the first to do this… there was an earlier example, in 2005, in Australia. Find out who…
Can anyone beat that? Let me know in the comments…
commenting at February 5th, 2010 at 7:46am
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I played out the entire Talk Radio UK Test Tx in 1995 from my own Sony MZ1 portable Minidisc recorder. Since Sonifex were still milling about trying to get their hard disk system settled and both on-air studios were in use for training & test runs it seemed a good idea. Also the only idea.
Minidisc was ideal for this – it ran happily on continuous loop for several weeks with brief pauses only to swap in new discs with replacement audio. If a small section of audio was being updated you could just split that section out, delete it and dub in the new bit.
Also, that Sony model looped seamlessly so if you hit start & stop on beat when recording, the playback would give you the exact same timing.
Tech details: 3.5mm plug to stereo RCA phonos with 1/4″ adaptors.. straight into the racks room patchbay. I imagine nothing on 1053/1089 before that point had been quite that “direct to air”!