Re: [Swprograms] [dxld] BBC SW

["Richard Cuff" <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>]

One option is an MP3 player and a software program to automatically
copy audio to your PC such as "Replay Radio" -- my personal favorite.

There are freeware audio recording programs that, in combination with
a freeware task scheduling program, allow you to fetch audio and save
it as MP3 files.

If you have a clock radio with a cassette player, you could also plug
a cassette recorder into your computer's headphone jack and save audio
that way.  With a voice-activated cassette recorder and that task
scheduling program you wouldn't need to be home to record programs of
interest.

You could do the same thing with a timer-activiated receiver (such as
a Sony 2010 or a bunch of others) and record good ol' shortwave audio.

Yes, it's extra work and extra planning vs. simply tuning a bedside
radio, but this way you can listen to nearly any program from any
broadcaster whenever you want.

I wrote a "how-to" article about this for Monitoring Times about 18
months ago...I can freshen that article if there's enough interest.

Richard Cuff / Allentown, PA

On 3/26/06, Kevin Anderson <k9iua@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The loss of the BBC on 5975 in the local Midwestern U.S. evening
> (0200-0400) is a serious loss for me.  That is essentially the
> only time (variously 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., but usually 9 p.m. to 10
> p.m.) that I have time to listen to shortwave, as I am preparing
> for or in bed (I am an early riser for work, so invariably go to
> bed fairly early).  I've been going to sleep to the BBC for 15
> or so years on this frequency (or 5995 before that).  This time
> of evening has never allowed me to list to RN (my preferred
> second choice for SW), as it is between their two blocks of
> English broadcasts to the United States.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet.  I can't afford to
> purchase satellite radio, nor is computer-retrieved programs
> really a viable option at bedtime.
>
> Definitely a grievous loss as far as I'm concerned....
>
> Kevin Anderson
> Iowa
>
>
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