[78-L] stereo, ca. 1932

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 11:28 PM 7/7/2009, you wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
> > In 1925, radio station WBAJ in New Haven Connecticut began experimenting
> > with AM Stereo.using two frequencies fed by two microphones in the music
> > studio.
> > Also see:
> > http://www.durenberger.com/resources/documents/MULTI-CHANNELRADIO0822.pdf
> >
>I can recall (I think 1959 or 1960) hearing a local (Peoria) "stereo"
>program
>broadcast by a station which had both an AM and FM service; they broadcast
>one channel on AM and one on FM!
>
>...stevenc

Sometime during the 80's when MTS stereo came out on regular TV 
broadcasts, I remember a couple of TV stations doing stereo FM 
simulcasts using a local FM station for the stereo link.  One was PBS 
Ch 8 with it's classical music broadcasts & the other was a local Ch 
26 on the 4th of July broadcasts with the Houston Symphony at Miller 
Outdoor Theater. I have many of those broadcasts recorded in linear 
stereo (the VHS deck didn't have VHS HiFi) at SP speed using an RCA 
stereo VCR & it's simulcast input (the VCR didn't have MTS capability 
with it's tuner either) however that recorder died a long time ago & 
none of my current VCR's will play those tapes in stereo as they only 
have a mono linear track head with VHS HiFi playback. Too bad as the 
tapes sounded great in stereo even though the top end was only around 
10k or so. If I ever find an older VCR with linear stereo playback 
I'll transfer those tapes in stereo to DVDR's & keep the old VHS tapes too.