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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Good grief. They must have had strong reporters. ;-) And you could
guarantee a mains supply in the field?


I am talking about things like recording a high school ball game for
later broadcast, where a tech, or even the chief engineer went to the
site to set up, and tear down the equipment.

You live in the land of the government funded BBC.

Maybe, but their local radio stations had shoestring budgets.

in the US, most stations were privately owned by an individual, or it
was a family business.

But the A77 was an expensive high end domestic machine. Weren't there some
cheaper but more robust home grown makes - Ampex, etc? In the UK,
Ferrograph tended to have that side of the market sewn up.

I'm just curious - I'm an A77 fan. I have two including an HS one. And a
Dolby SR unit for use with them.

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