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2 THE MEV^' YEAR Vvhat v;ill 1947 brin^ to the National Association of Educational Broadcasters? Certainly the opportunity to go forward on all fronts. And hov^r will we handle that opportunity? The answer will be written in the months ahead. This is the golden opportunity for educational broadcasting. Facilities assignments in the non-commercial band are available, and there must be more evidence of intentions on the part of school people to use them. Y<e must encourage it lest the story of Mi radio be permitted to repeat itself. 1947 should see a flood of FM applications from institutions interested in using radio to extend their services. NAEB must encourage this, and give assistance to such applicants. A real obstacle to progress is complacency. It is all too easy to follow a fixed pattern until it becomes a deep rut. This is a time for appraising the past-- and charting a course ahead. The NAEB course must lead to greater service to FM broadcasters. There is a high degree of transfer value from AM to FM, and the experience of the years can be used to advantage. Broadcasting is broadcasting—-be it FM or AM. The basic interests are the same. Yve will move forward together toward the goal of better radio for all. SIEGEL REPORTS USE OF TAPE RECORDER Seymour Siegel, Y<NYC program director, has been using the Brush Sound Mirror Tape Recorder, and has the following to report* Our experience with the recorder has been centered mainly on the recording of speeches and discussions. The practicality comes from its compactness and simplicity in operation, as well as its ability to both record and play back at one-fifth the cost of recording on regular transcriptions. The frequency response of 6000 cycles can be considered high fidelity enough insofar as voice recordings are concerned. Lesser success has been attained thus far in our experimental tests with music. The principle of operation involved in the pa : er tape recorder is the use of a ribbon of paper a quarter of an inch wide and coated with a ferrous base which gives it magnetic properties similar to the steel thread used in the wire recorder. The advantage of paper in editing is obvious. A snip with a pair of shears, and the use of a little scotch tape to bind the ends together does not require the skill, patience and time necessary in re-dubbing and re-editing the normal trans¬ cription. The cost is about one-third to one-fourth of what most wire recorders were selling at, and one-half hour’s quantity of paper is expected to sell for $1.50 to $1.75. The tape, of course, can be used over and over again although, obviously, its life is not as long as the wire reel. The advantage of any recorder lies in its ability to turn the whole world into a studio and in oases of stations v/ith small budgets, such as '*NYC, it has proven a boon in our telephone line budget allot¬ ment. Several changes could advantageously be made in the present model to permit use of associated amplifiers, but for the expenditure involved it is our considered opinion that good value is received. It would be premature after our brief assoc¬ iation with the machine to make any conclusive observations, but the potentialities of the tape recorder are excellent and for v^fhat times we have used it, the results have attained considerable success.