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Thanks, Russ. Yes I am familiar with Micro Center - great place! Thanks for
the suggestion. Are you retired now? I don't recall reading it here in the "DX
Press."
My wife and I both retired last month and are loving it!
Later,
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
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From: Russ Edmunds <[email protected]>
To: Marc DeLorenzo <[email protected]>
Cc: irca <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 4:49 pm
Subject: Re: Mobile DX Recording Question
OK - you've touched the necessary bases. What you need is either one of the
options Bill suggested or the one someone else suggested to moderate the level.
But I have another suggestion which is both inexpensive and non-technical and
which might work. There's a Micro Center in Boston. They stock a Sabrent USB
sound card which runs about $10 and is plug-in via a USB port.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<[email protected]>
AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Marc DeLorenzo <[email protected]> wrote:
Russ Edmunds-
I have the recording level set to absolute minimum and it is still distorting.
Have also tried "Set recording level automatically" with same problem.
Recording specs are "MPEG Layer-3, 16 kbits, 11 025 Hz, Mono" which I have used
successfully on 4 different PC's over the past 13 years.
Thanks for your response.
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Edmunds <[email protected]>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
<[email protected]>
Cc: capedx <[email protected]>; Marc DeLorenzo <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 4:16 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question
What settings are you using ? Knowing that I might be able to make a suggestion
or two which might improve things to a more tolerable result. First thing I'd
try is cutting the recording level in TR back by increments.
Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<[email protected]>
AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Marc DeLorenzo via IRCA <[email protected]>
wrote:
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From: Marc DeLorenzo <[email protected]>
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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:33:41 -0400
Subject: Mobile DX Recording Question
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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