Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] QSL archival

[Brett Saylor <bsaylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's an example of several sets of radio recordings that I uploaded to
the Internet Archive website:


https://archive.org/details/CentralAndSouthAmericanShortwaveBroadcastStations
   https://archive.org/details/1992EuropeanMediumWaveRadioRecordings

It's easy to make a collection - just drag all the files you want to
include onto an upload form and add some tags/metadata information. The
site takes care of creating all the links and formatting the page
correctly. It's actually kinda fun to do, and I like the fact that it's a
"recognized" archive site that will probably be around for a while.

I've also been playing around with developing my own website to host my
recording collection, and so far have come up with this site:

   http://www.radiodxing.info/index.html

Creating a website like that is a lot more work, but it gives me the
ability to organize things exactly how I want to. I know other folks have
developed similar websites for their personal collections, but the problem
with this is it only will exist as long as I'm around and paying the bill
for the web hosting.

Brett


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Brett Saylor <bsaylor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> One solution I've used for archiving recordings has been
> https://archive.org/ - their site allows you to upload audio files, and
> many people have uploaded shortwave and medium wave recordings there. There
> is also a large collection of old-time radio recordings on the site. Their
> mission is to preserve cultural artifacts like radio and TV recordings that
> would otherwise be lost. It's not a perfect solution, but might be worth a
> closer look,
>
> Brett
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The Library at the University of MD is the CPRV collection, so that's not
>> an alternative.
>>
>> I recall also that Jerry Starr has/had a few collections which were not
>> donated to CPRV,
>> and I am not sure whether Ron Musco may also have a couple.
>>
>> My personal collection is, like many of the same era, more than half
>> 'routine' stations. At
>> most 20-25% of mine are of any lasting interest, although I haven't gone
>> through them and
>> culled them to date.
>>
>> And on a similar note, I have a large quantity of recorded ID's - as do a
>> number of others -
>> which I have no idea what to do with. A good number of the more recent
>> ones are GY
>> stations, some of which are rare. I have no idea what to do with those
>> either, as I'm still
>> nowhere near going through all of my recordings from the NJ years
>> either....
>>
>>
>> Russ Edmunds
>> 15 mi NNW of Philadelphia
>> Grid FN20id
>> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
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