Micke M

The SNN 811 29 has only 7 hours left on eBay now. I wonder what the price is going to be for this one. JBond, are You taking it home? :-)

Wonderful information there. For 30 years I have thought of SN as the ultimate spy recorder since I first saw it in a book, "Spy Electronics". I wonder, what did the Soviets have during this period of time? I built my first FM-bug at age 13, a two transistor transmitter easy to hide anywhere. I was a lonely one and only I knew that I was cooler than anybody else. My dream was to own a NAGRA and now I have two, third on its way on Friday. This one, a mod version from Sveriges Radio:

Hi, I'm new here. About the SN-series, I heard from an old sound engineer that the spy stories may be a smaller part of the real story of usage of these units. They were simply what was used before there was radio mikes in the TV-studios around Europe. Nowadays, the hidden mike-packs use UHF radio directly to the mixer, back then the tapes were dubbed in post production. Makes sense to me, specially the Hi-Fi SN units should have been a good source of sound for this purpose. Sorry, it may not be that all of them was part of a good spy story, but I believe some of them were. Micke