Mike Hooker asked,
| what is the best way to set a timer for a sony je530 deck?
I don't quite follow. You set it by following its instructions.
| also, what is the best timer to use? radio shack?
Radio Shack sells a couple models of digitally settable timers last I
checked: a 24-hour one-event model and a seven-day six-event unit (same as
as the Intermatic DT7). Both are large with buttons that are difficult to
press hard enough to register (and often when you finally get a button
pressed it sticks down and keeps repeating). Intermatic also makes the DT17
(seven days, fourteen events, one button to go into and out of daylight
time), which is smaller and easier to operate. The DT17 has one drawback:
there is no way to cancel one event short of resetting the unit and zapping
all events plus the current time setting. To work around that, you can
change the event you no longer want to duplicate one you're keeping, or you
can set both the ON and OFF times of the event to a time of the week when you
want the unit off (OFF will override ON of the same event if they match). I
bought a DT17 at Home Depot and am happier with it than with the Radio Shack
unit: I may not need fourteen events, but its smaller size and easier opera-
tion (and lower price, in retrospect) make it the winner for me.
Right now I use it principally to record a feature that runs from approxi-
mately 5:36 to 6:00 AM weekdays, but the station's timing can be loose and
fuzzy. At night I leave the JB940's REC-OFF-PLAY level on REC. My mini-
system turns its radio on at 5:30, the timer shuts the JB940 off at 5:32,
turns it on at 5:33, and turns it off at 6:03. The radio shuts off at 6:05.
When I wake up I move the slide from REC to OFF, and at 11:30 AM the timer
turns the 940 on again. (I'd turn it on manually, but the timer is in a
hard-to-reach place.)
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