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Mark Connelly has built for me an amplified whip antenna with magnetic base
that I can mount on the roof of my car for oceanfront DXpeditions. We tested
it in an RFI quiet zone - the local cemetery! - and it works fine with my JRC
NRD-525 receiver.
The problem is recording DX using Total Recorder on my laptop. The laptop
does not have an audio "line in" jack so I have been trying to use the
microphone jack. It records but the audio playback is quite distorted. On the
laptop I get the following message from Total Recorder:
"The level of the source signal is too high. Possibly the characteristics of
the sound source do not match those of the soundboard input (e.g. instead of
soundboard's line-in connector, the microphone-in connector is used.)
Recording is possible, but the quality of the recorded sound may be low."
Right. I noticed that. The question is what is the solution to the problem.
20 years ago I had an "attenuating cable" from Radio Shack that might solve
the problem. But, like a dummy, I through it away thinking that, "I'll never
have any use for that." I doubt that RS still carries this product.
So, is there a Total Recorder setting that might work? Or, should I scrap
Total Recorder and buy a portable digital recorder? If so, which one? A
digital recorder (with a line-in jack of course) would be better in that it is
smaller and would take up less space in the car.
Any help appreciated.
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, MA
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