Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital media

["Les Rayburn" <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Chuck that a few bad apples shouldn't spoil things for 
everyone. But I
do receive a surprising amount of falsified reception reports, at least for 
DX Tests.

Most are not very sophisticated, usually consisting of an hour or longer 
recording
of the supposed reception, with some vague details and an appeal to "listen 
closely".

Each major test will draw at least three or four of these types of reports. 
If it happens
once or twice then it may be an honest mistake. But some DX'ers literally 
seem to
report reception of every test, often with nothing on their recording that 
even
remotely sounds like a tentative logging.

In at least two cases, I've telephoned the DX'er involved, and asked them 
not to submit
reports unless the logging was "much clearer" than they had sent in the 
past.

It should be noted that these always seem to come through the Postal mail 
service
and on cassettes. I think that "publishing" prize catches on web site 
actually discourages
attempts at cheating. If DX'ers know that their recordings are going to be 
reviewed
by their peers, then they're less likely to attempt any kind of deception.



Les Rayburn, N1LF
NRC/IRCA Broadcast Test Coordinator
Please call anytime 24/7 if your transmitter
will be off the air for maintenance.
(205) 253-4867


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America'" 
<irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital media


> There are almost no people these days that care enough about QSL's to 
> cheat
> with audio clips. To me, the fact that there's one person out there who 
> does
> so is no reason to stop sharing them.
>
> And as to whether they have value to anyone else, the web sites that host
> some clips seem to generate a fair bit of interest. I'd love to hear the
> stuff some of you (John Callarman, Charlie Taylor, Bob Foxworth, Russ
> Edmunds, etc) have on analog tape.
>
> It's too bad the medium wave DX crowd in the US doesn't have quite the
> interest in posting clips that some other groups do.
>
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:irca-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Russ Edmunds
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 7:40 AM
> To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] transferring recordings from cassettes to digital 
> media
>
>
> <CLIP>
> One of the reasons for both that carelessness and also my failure to
> separate out the individual ID's from the old stuff has been
> re-vitalized by this discussion, namely what's the point of all of that
> given that my recorded ID's aren't really worth anything to anyone else
> except possibly for someone who wants to try to pass some off as their
> own somewhere down the road should they get hold of them.
> <CLIP>
>
> Russ Edmunds
> Blue Bell, PA ( 360' ASL )
> [15 mi NNW of Philadelphia]
> 40:08:45N; 75:16:04W, Grid FN20id
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> FM: Yamaha T-80 & Onkyo T-450RDS w/ APS9B @15'
> AM: Hammarlund HQ-150 & 4' FET air core loop
>
>
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