Re: [IRCA] Recorded AM BCB Logs made with ELAD FDM-S2 Receiverâââ.

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

With the prices of external or internal hard drives being what they are,
disk space shouldn't be an issue.
I'm not in the SDR group yet but I do a lot of unattended recordings using
TOH. My biggest issue with
potentially going to an SDR is the amount of time it would take to review
just a couple of hours' worth of
recording from one good auroral night !

Russ Edmunds
15 mi NW Phila
Grid FN20id
<wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>





On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Brian Rachford <azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm going to be a bit of a non-conformist here.  If disk space is a major
> issue, then definitely something like x:58:30-y:01:30.  However, I
> typically record x:57:00 or x:58:00 to y:06:30 covering 1.5MHz.
> Importantly, I do *not* listen to the entire 9 or 10 minutes for each
> frequency!  The extra, especially at the end is for the following reasons:
> 1) If I get a marginal catch of something I think might be new at the TOH
> and they are in network programming (common at night), they might ID again
> at 5 or 6 minutes after the hour in between network news and the network
> program.
> 2) I get a lot of Mexican stations and if they hit x:59:30 at the end of a
> song, they will often just go into another song, so you might not get the
> ID until several minutes past.
> 3) If I get nothing or a big pileup at the TOH, I might go ahead and check
> 5 or 6 minutes after the hour just to see if something's there
>
> Unless conditions are special in some way, I still think it makes sense to
> record more, but not be slavish about listening to every minute of every
> frequency; cherry pick situations where you actually listen beyond, say,
> x:59:30-y:00:30.  Your mileage may vary, of course, and only a very small
> percentage of new catches on my TOH recordings come outside the actual TOH.
> Once I've extracted audio from an SDR file for the appropriate stations, it
> gets compressed and moved off to a backup drive, or deleted if it was
> particularly useless.
>
> Brian Rachford - Prescott, AZ
> azswdxing@xxxxxxxxx
> http://azswdxing.wordpress.com/
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Robert Ross <va3sw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys:
> >
> >  Well today was the day I decided I was going to learn how to RECORD and
> > PLAYBACK Recordings on the ELAD SDR!!  I find the User's Manual for the
> > ELAD quite useless and lacking in instructions for the un-initiated !! It
> > may be easier if you have worked with other SDR'sâbut for a first time
> > owner and user the Manual doesn't help a lot!! It's an amazing Receiver,
> > but  there are so many controls and settings , and many of them are not
> > really covered well in the Manual!!
> >
> > So, after reading the Manual all I got was frustrated, so I threw it on
> > the floor and used the good old "Trial and Error Method". I was able to
> > record some files, but then I couldn't figure out how to play them back..
> > After some more looking around, I was able to figure out how to play back
> > the files!!
> >
> > It really wasn't all that hardâbut with little direction to work with,
> you
> > don't know where to start!!
> >
> > I figured I needed some Practice and that would help cement what I just
> > learned into my head!! I made 2 Recordings at 2000 EDT and 2030 EDT
> > tonight. I recorded the entire AM BCB for 4 Minutes at the top of the
> hour
> > and 4 Minutes at the Bottom of the hour. 2 Minutes on either side of the
> > Legal ID Time.
> >
> > Everything worked as planned and I ended up with 2 Big files to listen
> to!!
> >
> > Took me a couple of Hours to dissect those 4 Minutes and check for
> > anything unusual. It is really an amazing thing to be able to capture the
> > entire BCB all at once at ID Time!!
> >
> > I can see that this SDR is going to be a Great tool in the upcoming days,
> > especially when conditions are "Real Good" or in Auroral Conditions
> > etcââ..I think it will be fun.
> >
> > I learned that 4 Minutes at ID Time is probably TOO LONG to Record for. I
> > think 3 Minutes or maybe even 2 Minutes would be better. It takes a long
> > time to listen to 4 Minutes on each frequency!!
> >
> > AnywayâI didn't get anything NEW in my first recording attempt, but
> > conditions were not all that great and it was noisy. Here's what I did
> get,
> > along with a Stiff Neck from staring at the screen for so long!!
> >
> > ELAD FDM-S2 Receiver
> > 100 FOOT Longwire
> >
> > 73â.ROB VA3SW
> >
> > Robert S. Ross
> > London, Ontario CANADA
> >
> >
> >
> ***********************************************************************************
> > 1360  WGBN  McKeesport, PA.  Apr/07/15  1958 EDT      EE    GOOD
> > Black Gospel Music . Duel ID as "WGBN McKeesport/Pittsburgh - WMNY New
> > Kensington/Pittsburgh" @ 2000 EDT.  Into more Black Gospel Mx.
> >
> > RELOG but NEW CALLS - EX-WMNY      5/1 KW
> > ROSS, ON.
> >
> >
> ***********************************************************************************
> > 990  UNID     UNID     Apr/07/15  2000 EDT      EE     GOOD
> > Christian Station with Male Talking @ 2000 EDTâbut they switched to Lower
> > Power
> > in Mid sentence and disappeared!!
> >
> > ROSS, ON.
> >
> >
> ***********************************************************************************
> > 1310  WDPN   Alliance, OHIO  Apr/07/15  2030 EDT     EE    GOOD
> > MOR/AC Music to 2030 EDT. ID by Male DJ as "AM 1310 - WDPN"
> >
> > RELOGâBut Not heard in MANY Years!!      1 KW/480 Watts
> > ROSS, ON.
> >
> >
> ***********************************************************************************
> >
> > Of course I heard and ID'd Many other stations, but nothing NEW or
> > spectacular
> > so they are not listed here. This was my Test Run to make sure I knew
> what
> > I was
> > doingâ..and mission accomplished!! Now to dig out the DX in future
> > recordings!!
> >
> > 73âROB
> >
> >
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