Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 09:41:00 -0400 From: Peter Moore To: "W0KIE mail list" Subject: [W0KIE] Audio on Video Heads--Listen up, T+D! I was listening to last night's Tom and Darryl show when Tom (or was that Darryl?) made the comment that you don't record the audio with the video heads on a VCR. You CAN you know... Take a patch cable with RCA male plugs and plug one end into the baseband output of your IRD. Plug the other end into the Video IN port of the HI-FI VCR. Record. Depending on the bandwidth of your video heads, the VCR should be recording all signals between 1 Hz and 4 MHz (or higher). Once your recording is done, you take the signals from the Video OUT port and plug them into the signal input of an FM tuner (SCA/Carrier Current receiver or FM2 receiver such as the Universal SC-50) and play the tape. I have successfully recorded FM2 signals this way, but only up to around 5MHz. Apparently, my VCR doesn't go higher than that. Some do, I've heard... -Original idea from "The Hidden Signals on Satellite TV" by Thomas P. Harrington, Third Edition. Have fun! :^) --------------------------------------------- W0KIE Satellite Radio Network on SBS 6, Trans. 3 u, 11786, 6.2, 9 p.m. E., Mon-Sat. and http://www.ionet.net/~michaelr/index.html W0KIE-on, W0KIE-off, W0KIE-switch, W0KIE-vacation@mail-list.com