{"id":52353,"date":"2022-04-13T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52353"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:01:51","slug":"inches-per-second-bobs-massive-collection-of-archived-reel-to-reel-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/inches-per-second-bobs-massive-collection-of-archived-reel-to-reel-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Inches Per Second: Bob’s massive collection of archived reel to reel recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Very recently, Bob Purse reached out to me through the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>. Bob is the owner and curator of the excellent Inches Per Second<\/a> audio archive and blog.<\/p>\n

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Bob’s archive is all about sharing what essentially amounts to lost and found sound: reel to reel recordings he’s discovered at thrift stores, estate sales, in junk piles, etc.<\/p>\n

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One of Bob’s shelves chock-full of reel to reel recordings<\/p><\/div>\n

Bob describes his passion for collecting these recordings in this post on WFMU’s blog<\/a>.\u00a0 I can say that he’s truly a kindred spirit as we both love taking recordings that would otherwise be lost forever and making them freely available online for everyone to enjoy.<\/p>\n

Bob has kindly offered up the off-air shortwave radio recordings he’s collected and digitized over the years. We’ll be slowly adding these to the SRAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many thanks, Bob, for sharing your recordings with the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive.<\/p>\n

Post readers: I would highly recommend checking out Bob’s numerous recordings and notes on Inches Per Second!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very recently, Bob Purse reached out to me through the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. Bob is the owner and curator of the excellent Inches Per Second audio archive and blog. Bob’s archive is all about sharing what essentially amounts to lost and found sound: reel to reel recordings he’s discovered at thrift stores, estate sales, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[1561,9764,9765,8278,2479],"class_list":["post-52353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-archives","tag-bob-purse","tag-inches-per-second","tag-shortwave-archive","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dCp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60216,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/bob-shares-a-1968-off-air-recording-of-radio-australia\/","url_meta":{"origin":52353,"position":0},"title":"Bob shares a 1968 off-air recording of Radio Australia","author":"Thomas","date":"July 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bob Purse, owner and curator of the excellent\u00a0Inches Per Second audio archive and blog, who recently posted a 1968 recording of Radio Australia. 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