Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Chuck Hutton
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 2:50 PM To: IRCA@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [IRCA] Recording equipment question I was lamenting earlier on how I missed capturing the NZ station on 1386. Here's a question: When I used the Minidisc system, my recorder had a 10 second cache that I loved. No more

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Bill Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walt, While I am actively DXing, I use a program called Loop Recorder. You can set it to record loop back for a few seconds to indefinite. I have mine set to 15 minutes usually. As the recording reaches 15 minutes, the recording that was 15

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Craig Healy
I was lamenting earlier on how I missed capturing the NZ station on 1386. Here's a question: When I used the Minidisc system, my recorder had a 10 second cache that I loved. No more missed IDs, but I'm unaware of any mp3 products that do the same. Am I blissfully unaware, or am I correct in

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 03:50 PM 9/3/2007, you wrote: Yeah, Bjarne Mjlede has one of his Iriver mp3's set up with a 30 second buffer via 3rd party Rockbox software. You can also do this in your PC via Total Recorder if that's an option. Chuck Interesting, Chuck. Total Recorder has this option? I know that

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 04:11 PM 9/3/2007, you wrote: I was lamenting earlier on how I missed capturing the NZ station on 1386. Here's a question: When I used the Minidisc system, my recorder had a 10 second cache that I loved. No more missed IDs, but I'm unaware of any mp3 products that do the same. Am I

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Bill Harms
Russ: I generally figure that 15 minutes is long enough to go back and listen again to something I did not hear clearly the first time. You can change it to whatever length of time you want, 30 minutes like you do, or 1 hour, 2 hours, 6 hours, one day, or whatever. (You can increase or

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Tapio Kalmi
Hi to you all, I have been using Total Recorder last 2 years and pre-recording was one of those good things why I chose that software. Actually you can set the length of prerecording to any value between 1 and 999 seconds. And you can turn it on or off as you wish. Cheers, Tapio Kalmi Helsinki

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Russ Edmunds
--- Bill Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ: I generally figure that 15 minutes is long enough to go back and listen again to something I did not hear clearly the first time. You can change it to whatever length of time you want, 30 minutes like you do, or 1 hour, 2 hours, 6 hours,

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Bill Harms
Oh, in that case, I would run it full time. Russ Edmunds wrote: --- Bill Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russ: I generally figure that 15 minutes is long enough to go back and listen again to something I did not hear clearly the first time. You can change it to whatever length of time

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Mauno Ritola
- From: Bill Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question Oh, in that case, I would run it full time. Russ Edmunds wrote: --- Bill

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-04 Thread Tapio Kalmi
- From: Bill Harms [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America irca@hard-core-dx.com Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:50 PM Subject: Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question Oh, in that case, I would run it full time. Russ Edmunds wrote: --- Bill

[IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
I was lamenting earlier on how I missed capturing the NZ station on 1386. Here's a question: When I used the Minidisc system, my recorder had a 10 second cache that I loved. No more missed IDs, but I'm unaware of any mp3 products that do the same. Am I blissfully unaware, or am I correct in

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Harms
Walt, While I am actively DXing, I use a program called Loop Recorder. You can set it to record loop back for a few seconds to indefinite. I have mine set to 15 minutes usually. As the recording reaches 15 minutes, the recording that was 15 minutes old ages off. Bill Harms Walter Salmaniw

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-03 Thread Walter Salmaniw
At 03:49 PM 9/3/2007, you wrote: Walt, While I am actively DXing, I use a program called Loop Recorder. You can set it to record loop back for a few seconds to indefinite. I have mine set to 15 minutes usually. As the recording reaches 15 minutes, the recording that was 15 minutes old ages

Re: [IRCA] Recording equipment question

2007-09-03 Thread Bill Harms
Walt, you can also run more than one iteration of the program at a time AND if you have more than one sound card on your machine, you can continue to record on one card while you listen to the clip you just recorded on the other. Plus the program can time stamp your file name. In other words,