tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post697014709683414678..comments2024-03-05T23:42:30.151-06:00Comments on The Poor Farm: Eight TrackJeffrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-24100513191647641982008-08-25T14:06:00.000-05:002008-08-25T14:06:00.000-05:00A few of my trucking buddies listen to AM for cert...A few of my trucking buddies listen to AM for certain talk shows, but most of us have abandoned that band and most of FM for XM or Sirius.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-24161210580554584442008-08-25T12:49:00.000-05:002008-08-25T12:49:00.000-05:00My radio can't pull in the local news-talk blowtor...My radio can't pull in the local news-talk blowtorch with its transmitting antenna less than 50 miles away on a mountain with nothing in between except trees.<BR/><BR/>When I took it back to try to get the installers to do it right, they told me it was the radio "because nobody listens to AM anymore."<BR/><BR/>I wanted to tell him, "Well, then nobody is who's going to be paying for this stereo."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-25174728744377134172008-08-24T13:00:00.000-05:002008-08-24T13:00:00.000-05:00Jeffro, I still have some 8-tracks and an 8-track ...Jeffro, <BR/>I still have some 8-tracks and an 8-track player, which is broke. Needs a tiny rubber band, which dry-rotted off.<BR/><BR/>If you ever had to repair an 8-track, you leaped onto the new cassette format in a heartbeat.<BR/><BR/>Hot summer days were not kind to the 8-tracks either.Jerry in Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156795615903611248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-22548662892185135692008-08-24T12:37:00.000-05:002008-08-24T12:37:00.000-05:00Dayum, Kevin, I'd forgotten about those AM adapter...Dayum, Kevin, I'd forgotten about those AM adapters! As for current AM radio reception - I read somewhere that most auto receivers really suck particularly compared to the older models for their ability to pull in weaker stations.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-62872503279145296742008-08-24T11:37:00.000-05:002008-08-24T11:37:00.000-05:00My dad installed an 8-track in the '70 Chevy Nova ...My dad installed an 8-track in the '70 Chevy Nova we were leasing, '71 to '74. It was a slide-out install, and it came with a cartridge-sized gizmo that allowed us to hear AM radio through the speakers for the 8-track deck.<BR/><BR/>We had The Beatles, Henry Mancini, Glenn Campbell, Johnny Mathis, a pretty wide-ranging selection of cartridges that I think he got from a mail-order music club.<BR/><BR/>I think the '74 we leased after that had a radio already in it, so by the time the format faded away we hadn't been using it for a while.<BR/><BR/>We were using compact cassettes in a little portable tape recorder at home sometime around then, and there was a factory-installed cassette player in cars I've had that were made in '91 and '93, so that was a fairly enduring format.<BR/><BR/>Now that I have an after-market disc player in my truck, what I want is something that will play MP3s natively, such as directly from an SD card. I also want it installed by people who know how to make sure the damn thing can pull in AM stations, as the one I have can't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-56020793790210770672008-08-24T00:29:00.000-05:002008-08-24T00:29:00.000-05:00Thanks for the review and the explanation of 'anci...Thanks for the review and the explanation of 'ancient history'!<BR/><BR/>I remember the bands from then, but the workings of the 8-track tapes were brand new to me.<BR/><BR/>Much appreciated~!The Local Malcontenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09074133807214264233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-11972854999976451542008-08-23T21:58:00.000-05:002008-08-23T21:58:00.000-05:00I didn't go cassette until the late seventies or e...I didn't go cassette until the late seventies or early eighties, but yeah, the 120s sucked. They'd play a while, but anything slightly off would end up with it being eaten.<BR/><BR/>IIRC some home decks claimed they could run 120s reliably, but most car decks said right in the instructions that they weren't recommended.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-51125516467842778312008-08-23T20:37:00.000-05:002008-08-23T20:37:00.000-05:00In High School (early 70's) I had an 8-track and m...In High School (early 70's) I had an 8-track and my best friend had a cassette deck. The 8-track was MUCH less troublesome in those days - that tells you how much trouble the early cassettes were. They generally got better as time went on, except for the 120 min. tapes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-44875585546140392212008-08-23T17:57:00.000-05:002008-08-23T17:57:00.000-05:00I installed an 8-track in my new '72 Chevy pick-up...I installed an 8-track in my new '72 Chevy pick-up truck. There was no <I>good</I> place to put the big speakers; they ended up glued to the back window. My old Akai reel to reel has an 8 track recorder built-in. If you need anything dubbed to 8 track...ptghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15079577478993790527noreply@blogger.com