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- Subject: Mobile DX Recording Question
- From: Marc DeLorenzo <midcapemarc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 22:30:53 -0400
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OK, thanks Nick!
Marc DeLorenzo
South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
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From: Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question
At 19:33 02-09-16, you wrote:
If you have $20 or so hanging around, try a USB audio adapter Marc:
https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-External-Channel-Audio-Adapter/dp/B004HXGJ3S
Has worked fine for me in the past; Total Recorder should see it as
another audio input, more likely several.
I was using it with a Windows 7 machine, but it appears there are
drivers for Windows 8 and 10 too.
best wishes,
Nick
>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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