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Police Broadcast Archive Tape is Evidence in Death Penalty Case
I work at a state agency that defends death row inmates. One of our cases
involves a police broadcast tape from the early-mid 1980s. It logs a 12- or 24-hour period of police-band communications, on 12 or 16 separate tracks (separate broadcast channels?). It is vital that we find out what is on this tape. However, it is an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape, and we have no way of listening to it. The tape box is 11" x 11" x 1.5" thick, and it says, "Magnasync/Moviola Corporation -- Logging Audio Communications Tape". Does anybody out there know how we can find or modify equipment that will enable us to listen to this tape? The magnetic tape itself is very wide -- as wide or wider than a regular VHS video tape. This is a capital case, and any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. |
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A radio station just might have something kicking around that will play it.
Call and ask for the Production Manager. ZW "blinkbox" wrote in message lkaboutaudio.com... I work at a state agency that defends death row inmates. One of our cases involves a police broadcast tape from the early-mid 1980s. It logs a 12- or 24-hour period of police-band communications, on 12 or 16 separate tracks (separate broadcast channels?). It is vital that we find out what is on this tape. However, it is an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape, and we have no way of listening to it. The tape box is 11" x 11" x 1.5" thick, and it says, "Magnasync/Moviola Corporation -- Logging Audio Communications Tape". Does anybody out there know how we can find or modify equipment that will enable us to listen to this tape? The magnetic tape itself is very wide -- as wide or wider than a regular VHS video tape. This is a capital case, and any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. |
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"blinkbox" wrote ...
I work at a state agency that defends death row inmates. One of our cases involves a police broadcast tape from the early-mid 1980s. It logs a 12- or 24-hour period of police-band communications, on 12 or 16 separate tracks (separate broadcast channels?). It is vital that we find out what is on this tape. However, it is an old-fashioned reel-to-reel tape, and we have no way of listening to it. The tape box is 11" x 11" x 1.5" thick, and it says, "Magnasync/Moviola Corporation -- Logging Audio Communications Tape". Does anybody out there know how we can find or modify equipment that will enable us to listen to this tape? The magnetic tape itself is very wide -- as wide or wider than a regular VHS video tape. This is a capital case, and any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. 1) www.magnasync.com They are still a major player in that business and I'd be somewhat surprised if they couldn't just play back the tape or recommend the most convienent location that could help you. 2) There are experts who specialize in forensic audio engineering. They would either have the equipment or have access/contacts to it. They are likely known within the legal community. 3) Scott Dorsey over in news:rec.audio.pro may also have some insight into recovery of older reel-to-reel audio tapes. His email address is listed as: kludge (at) panix.com Those tapes are likely recorded in a track configuration and tape speed that are unique to the communications logging application. They are probably not playable on standard audio production equipment. |
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