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1988-1992
Archive Audio
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This page holds odd items with no obvious home so they are searchable.
RECENT ADDITIONS:
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- Krissi For Breakfast and Solid Gold Sunday added to Audio and Print Miscellany page
- Jodie's Rock Show F62 added to Audio and Print Miscellany page
- Good off air recordings of missing Sparks M63 added to 1992 Sparks page
- Falcon and Solid Gold Sunday finds added to Audio and Print Miscellany page
- Several written transcriptions added, including the Radio Caroline into 90s documentary on Audio and Print Miscellany page
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Around 300 hours of thousands have been found - please send along anything you have to Trevor Brook
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This page holds odd discovered programmes and studio cuts.
Radiofax audio archive of programmes from over 30 years ago.
1988 recordings, approximate total 111 hours. Missing: INTRO1, INTRO2; A1-14; B1-11, 15, 16, 18; C1-5, 7-12, 15-18; E3-6; S1-5;
STUDIO MASTERS FOR Sparks in 1992 - - - Recordings of packages marked ### are identified appearing in the programme recording of that number. Later tapes contain more unique recordings.
TREVOR B
* 1 Luxembourg 1440 medium wave closes in 1992 - Infra-Draw - Keynsham - Stayblonde - Brunitex - Lord Haw Haw - Dipole, IEE News ### M32 by Andy
* 2 All Over for Tape Hisssss - curtains for analogue tape? - Dolby S - 3 heads - John Baldy, Q ### M34
* 3 End of Europe short wave coverage from Radio Netherlands - Jonathan Marks ### M31
* 4 NRPB Microwave radiation hurts the eye - biological effects of non-ionising radiation - use phone for 2 hours ### M31
* Electronic tags for only USD1 - ISM 27MHz - free from interference?! - Electronic Weekly ### M31
* Engineers boring and unambitious - ### M31
* 8 New from Apple - telephones - personal communicators - CDROM Mac PDAs - Sony - Larry Black, Independent ### M31
* start missing/Ford Dunton car audio - build their own - anechoic chamber - antenna performance - acoustic mannequin - Geoff Howard ### M20
* Andy - Dynavector Super Stereo - HiFi Exhibition /slower/ ### M16
* Andy - Dynavector Super Stereo - LMC Remote Control - 4 rooms - video throughout house /levels/ ### M16
* repeats
TREVOR J / Andy Reports / M15 / ~March 1992
* Cable underground - USA ahead ### M37
* Eclipse Caltech Maxwell ### M49
* Radio 101.6 Classic test ### M38
* Recordings number stations - Andy - Simon Mason - ### (M37) M39
* 34m - Radio 1 - Michael Jackson - Mike Smash - Silver Jubilee - great guys - adore - revere - Tony Blackburn
* 36m - Andy - Sky at Night - 35 years old - Patrick Moore - Mariner 2 - Quatermass - eruption - tectonic - Venus - radar -
* Recording Veronica AM - 1395 - London area ### M46
* Radio Tape 4 - extract - radiofax - ### M46
* Recording Pirate FM test ### M46
* Amberley Chalk Pit Museum ### M52
* Kew Bridge Steam Museum ### M54
* Kew Music Museum - ### M54
* Recording Radio Wimbledon - half world population - ### M54
* 1h24 - TST Rock - Tim Bucknall - SW reports - long 49m band station list - 3MHz list
* M15 fragment
M21 / TREVOR L
* 1 Radiofax Country recording - Caroline grounded - Media Network ### M26
* 2 Channel 5 franchise - retuning - VCRs - satellite receivers - games - not liable after new equipment installed - filter - notch - Television - Gareth Foster, Whitton - cross polarised - stupid - Irish - French - protection lost - splitter unsatisfactory - ghosts - diplexer ### M27
* 3 Taking a Stand - breaking human rights - offshore - taking action - directive - Article 10 - ARD - ZDF - Autonics - ignore - British pirate radio act - hindering freedom - no legal basis - D2MAC - non compatibility - compensate consumers - Andrew von Gamm, International Broadcasting ### M28
TREVOR K / M7 PARTIAL
* 1 Apple dispute ends out of Court - computers vs Beatles - Tony Mitchell ### M25
* 2 Bubbles and Squeaks - washing machines - common problems - floods - socks - tumble driers - refrigerators - Gareth Parry, Guardian ### M26
* 3 HDTV Wide Eyed and Clueless - 16:9 / Cinevision - 625 to 1250 lines - 50 to 100Hz - Pal Plus - Barry Fox, International Broadcasting ###M26 & M34
* 4 TV3 Loses Franchise in Ireland - James Morris shocked - IRTC - consortium failed - Neville Farmer, Pro Sound News ### M30
* Talkback In Nicam TIN - hidden talkback sound using additional capacity in NICAM TV sound in a feed from TV AM ### M30
* 5 Robot automated TV cameras - saving costs - operators out of work - Radamec EPO - Vinten - Ian White, International Broadcasting ### M27
* 6 Marchioness Disaster - Nick Flaherty Electronic Engineering demonstrates use of modern infra red camera technology ### M36
* 7 Public Address in the Channel Tunnel - TML asssuming worst scenario - thousands of loudspeakers - 140 cross passages ### M32
* TREVOR M ~February 1992
* 1 History of Nicam - experiments at Crystal Palace - 1958 tests - Network 3 left + TV sound right - 625 lines Band 5 - Zenith GE 1966 - Sound In Syncs - Keith Hamer & Gary Smith, Television
* 2 8m - Jazz FM revamp - not making money - other forms of Jazz - John Bradford - sorry to disappoint - really Jazz? - Richard Cook, The Wire - angry founder Dave Lee ousted - Jeremy Vine, R4 Today
* 3 Test card music ### M27
* 4 Bob Tomalski VCRs - too difficult to use ### M24
* 5 Mod levels on FM ### M30
* 6 26m - Atlantic 252 Jocksearch 91 - myth about women's voices - Clare Ashford, 26 - St Mary's Hospital Radio London - scoffed at archaic long wave - 3m listeners - like to keep a piratey feel - 40 song playlist - competitions - Berlin Wall - JICRAR - wipeout by INR? - Alexander Garrett, Guardian
* 7 33m - BBC Discord Over 24 Hour Radio News - long wave - no appetite - Gulf War transmissions - Strategy Review Group - Marmaduke Husssey - John Birt - Tony Hall - Jenny Abramsky - £12m/year - divide Radio 4 audience - Michael Checkland - charter renewal - Maggie Brown, Independent
* Radio Companion - 300 page radio guide - old and new programmes - when - who - by Paul Donovan, Sunday Times - £25 - like Leslie Halliwell Film TV Guides - Independent
* Greg Dyke, London Weekend Television - next chair ITV Association - Independent
* 8 Slow Start for AM stereo - RTHK - Metro - Peter Quinn, Asia Pacific Broadcasting ### M33
* 9 Pirate TV in the west country - Robin Parker, 45 - Independent ### M27
* 10 Dolby digital cinema sound - open cinema curtains - secret Christmas release - CDS to die - Barry Fox, Studio Sound ### M33
TREVOR T SPARKS as M43
* first 31 minutes - better quality - used into ### M43
TREVOR T2 ~July 1992
* 1 Radon
* 2 Audio power amps - PSU issues - Ben Duncan, Line UP ### M57 /false start 3
* 3 DNA - important word is acid - gene therapy - decode by 2007 - eugenic abuse - Dr John Colley, Observer ### M58
* 4 Caroline Mike Barraclough Letchworth reports Radio Caroline on 6305 from Ireland ### M57
* Spotted by Jodie in Media Guardian - Radio Caroline require Experienced AOR Programme Controller - satellite - contact Linda Hayward ### M57
* Joe Meek Museum - rich benefactor required - advert in Private Eye ### M57
* 5 Preserve Bletchley Park - appeal launched in London - Ultra secret - Hut 6 - first computer - £7m - museum campus - Turing (Enigma not mentioned then) ### M58
* 6 State of CD sales - additional items - price reduced - cutting off industry life blood - Danny Kelly, Radio 4, Today
* "8" BBC Future Lies in the Small Print - Charter renewal - government Green Paper soon - 15 years or indefinite - 'one of us' - Eric Barent, University of London
* 8 41m - Reputation of engineers - Clive Sinclair C5 - Whittle Jet - Thames Barrier - gas grid - Dublin atmospheric railway - Sue Nelson, The Parts, Radio 4 - Ireland atmospheric railway
* 9 46m - Pictures sent digitally - discrete cosine transform DCT - JPG - MPEG - Fractal transform compression - repeating detail - Mandlebrot - Brian Aird, Audio Visual
* 10 55m - Hydrogen car - 100,000 cars in a few years - fuel of future - Yamanouchi, Mazda - John Vidal, Guardian
* 11 57m - Bob Tomalski and Sue Nelson gadgets on TV - silly season - camcorder - Video 8 - auto tracking camera - interactive discs - The Parts
* 12 1h01m - Electric shocks - shoe better on hand than foot - oil industry conducting rubber boots - Dipole, IEE News
TREVOR V ~mid July 1992
* 1 crop circle competition - results - 12 teams - £3000 prize - West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - hoaxers - John Vidal, Guardian
* 2 4m - National Sound Archive -
* 3 11m - Try Try Trying Again With AM - AM is USA - Charles Taylor, Radio World
* 4 19m - DCC - Philips - PASC - Alan Mornington-West, AES
* 5 26m - Two memories of Daventry - Sir Francis Mclean, 1926-1972 - unattended - Third Programme - 5XX building - water cooling hissing - aerial switching duty - bifurcating switch - Don Bowman, 1942-1964 - BBC, Prospero
* 6 32m - Tonschreiber tape in the war - shellac discs - restoring - new hope - Alan Ward, Playback *** announced as M64
* 7 39m - Fibre Optic thermometer OFT - thermocouple - Johnson Matthey - Vacuum Semiconductor Processing Show - Electronic Engineering ### M64
* 8 42m - Jo Meek Museum - £230,000 - Telstar - BBC documentary - Joe Hosken, Pro Sound News Europe ### M64
* 44m - Toe Rag Music - vintage equipment - old mics - reverb plates - Liam Watson - Josh Collins - Xenon Shoepe ### M64
* 9 RNI on a train - Media Network ### M58
* 10 Classic FM - Kaleidoscope ### M58
* 11 BSkyB block community TV - Marco Polo - re-use unwated satellite - Richard Brooks, Observer ### M58
* issue discussed on Sunrise Radio 1413 - life changed - listen all day - not want to watch TV says Avtar Lit ### M58
* repeat
TREVOR Y ~ early August 1992
* 1 Porn on Astra Red Hot Dutch
* 2 Radio Caroline Programme Controller - Jodie visits Regent Street - ticket agency - Suite 500 - letters waiting - false address - wind up - Guardian - Paul Fraser - no payment
* 3 31 July 1992, David Mellor - broadcasting minister - Desert Island Discs - Sue Lawley - future of BBC - fourth time
* 4 No such thing as a free channel - Sky football - Canal Plus - profitable - cost of freedom - Harold Lind, Media Guardian
* 5 Expo Spain air conditioning - shade - vegetation - water - microclimate - pergolas - photosynthesis - wall of water - British pavilion - smartcards - fingerprint readers - BULL - Michael Chadwick, Spantech, IEE Review
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* 6 Interference on 6.3 6270/6310 - 6360 - SITOR Rugby spurii - GKE3 6215 - GKP3 6219 - over one month - boundary fence - immensely strong
* Caroline 6305 from Harmony
* DTI - serious story - Merlin 6240 - Wooferton 6240 spurious - two transmitters - logged in USA
* RA Quarterly Complaints Bulletin - Sunrise Bradford Urdu only - 960 identical letters - LBC presenter imitated Asian accent - B.A. Young, Financial Times
* 7 Science Museum Swindon store
* 8 FM pirates - drugs - raves ### M??
* 9 Tony Prince Luxembourg - Capital ### M??
* 10 Lethal Algae ### M?
* 11 Business Account BATV - BBC Select - weekly viewing habit - encyypted - subscription - BMTV Edward Fennell, Accountancy Times
* 12 Petrol station vapour capture - Gilbarco Euroline - new pumps - Esso View
* 13 Television Licence officers - stop bothering - 17 years no TV - pursued for years - search warrant obtained by lying - sheriffs court
* Music
* '11' Daventry Sunday 29 March 1992 close down -Skelton C - Wofferton - Waveguide, BBC World Service
UNUSED OFF AIR RECORDINGS
Radiofax Programme Final of 1992 OFF AIR:
Yellow RADIOFAX 5
* not particularly good quality - not entire programme - not for use - complete version on 1992 Sparks.
Duration: 1h05m16, First broadcast: 30th September 1992