[IRCA] Digital Recorders MP3 Technology. Advice sought.

["Martin and Wendy Foltz" <martinfoltz@xxxxxxx>]

See answers below. I use Total Recorder. The only down side is I have to run
a computer (older laptop here). It would be nice to also have a unit like a
portable cassette (like my Radio Shack unit). The computer sometimes injects
noise on weak channels. Make sure your computer has at least Windows 2000
(PC) so you can use the USB memory sticks to remove files.

> From: Charles A & Leonor L Taylor > FOLKS:
>
> Still need lots of advice on using MP3 to record and playback from my DX
> receiver.
>
> 1. Don't have any idea what 15 seconds of station ID is likely to
> translate to in KB of MP3 file. The usual ID full of fanfare, BS and
> bellowing.

I just extracted a 20 second ID and it was 40KB.

>
> 2. I have numerous 100 and 250 MB Zip? disks which I much prefer to use
> in the meantime for storing DX MP3 files.

Write them as Audio CDs and you can listen to them on your CD player.

>
> 3. Don't EVEN want to think about buying and interfacing a CD ROM burner
> right now. In the future, say like a year when I get comfortable with DX
> MP3 file
> storage it looks like the way to go. But not now for me.
>
> 4. Request maybe a list of $100 - $200 MP3 recorder/players. I prefer
> USB interface, but I can't be choosy.
>
> 5. This is even farther in the future, but is there anyone out there in
> IRCA Romper Room who has used DSP with MP3 files and the like?

Read the article on the IRCA website about High Tech DXpeditioning.

>
> I'm ahead of the pack in some aspects of digital, but haven't so much as
> a clue about other.
>
> 73 de Charles WD9INP/4
>           ------
> Charles A & Leonor L Taylor
> Greenville, North Carolina


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