<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 14, 2010, at Oct 14 5:36 PM, Don Norwood wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I don't think there ever was an LBM demod for the AVR-</span></blockquote></div><br><div>I believe you are correct on that, but there was a Low Band Color demod board set available for the AVR-2. These could not be used for recovery of Low Band Mono though, due, I recall, to differences in carrier freq and deviation.</div><div>I had very limited success playing Low Band Monochrome tapes on AVR-2 by taking its demod out to an external proc and TBC. Had to be very careful about skew and scallop (tip penetration and guide height) which, if off even a little bit, would cause line pulls at each channel's head switch point.</div><div>I also had 7.5ips 5 mil head recordings. With only a 10 mil head available for playback, I had to manually, carefully, ride tracking to minimize (of course never eliminate) moire and interference between tracks. Since the content overrode the technical flaws, the recovered video was adequate for the purpose needed.</div><div><br></div><div>Chuck Reti</div><div>Detroit MI</div></body></html>