{"id":7744,"date":"2025-03-13T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/tapesponding-who-knew\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"tapesponding-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/tapesponding-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapesponding &#8212; Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4t9H14XfkPc?si=1nmmZVzTS7t38Zoq\" title=\"YouTube video player?rel=0\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I didn&#8217;t realize that &#8220;tapesponding&#8221; had become so widespread. I know of two very prominent homebrewers (one now a Silent Key) who exchanged tapes. When I learned of this I asked if those tapes (which would have been a real treasure) were still around. Sadly, they had been destroyed, as, I suspect, were most of the tapes mentioned in this video. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I sometimes think that some of the on-the-air conversations about tech topics really should be saved for posterity (most conversations clearly should NOT be saved!). The internet provides a great forum for this kind of preservation. This happens, but only very sporadically and mostly in the AM world. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Hack-A-Day for alerting us to this. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that &#8220;tapesponding&#8221; had become so widespread. I know of two very prominent homebrewers (one now a Silent Key) who exchanged tapes. When I learned of this I asked if those tapes (which would have been a real treasure) were still around. Sadly, they had been destroyed, as, I suspect, were most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/13\/tapesponding-who-knew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tapesponding &#8212; Who Knew?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-tape-recorder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11122,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions\/11122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}