Setting Up a VCR
to Record a Program
Not able to listen to you favorite radio programs when
they are on. Check to see if they are archived, if not here’s a way to use
a VCR to record the programs.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an attempt to provide detailed instructions
intended to cover more than one configuration. Adaptation may be
required. We assume VCR is monophonic. We assume all programmed
recording is from the same radio station.]
(1) Learn the
procedure to make your VCR select external or “line” input (versus a
selected channel number). (On an RCA
VR344 this is done by pressing the "input" button, achieving display
of the misleading word "video" in lieu of a channel number.)
(2) Obtain a shielded audio cable with an RCA pin plug at each end
(to convey audio signal from radio equipment to VCR). Connect one end
to the external audio input jack on back of VCR.
(3) Connect the other end to standard audio output jack of radio
tuner (or if necessary, to the "record" output jack of associated
amplifier). If monophonic mode is unavailable, use a 1F-2M Y-adapter
to join right and left channels.
(4) Turn on TV and VCR and select external input (see #1 above).
Turn on radio tuner and bring in desired station; its audio will play
(monophonically) on TV.
(5) Set the VCR's clock-calendar and program it to record from
external input (see #1 above) during the desired time period(s) at an
appropriate tape speed. Select super-long-play speed to record all
four hours of No-U-Turn Radio. For music, select standard-play speed
(fills the usual videocassette in two hours).
(6) Insert a suitable videocassette. Turn off TV and VCR. Leave
radio tuner powered on or control its power with a separate timer.
(If you have programmable radio equipment, or a remote control with
built-in timers [for example Radio Shack #15-1901A], go ahead and
schedule power-on, power-off, and station selection. Still, this
won't reposition your antenna.)
(7) Later, the videocassette can be played back like any other. On
TV, picture will be blank. Play on sound equipment by connecting
VCR's audio output to an input port on sound equipment (optionally
with Y-adapter). Use the other side of a stereo cable pair, or
reconnect the single cable to do this.