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- Subject: Mobile DX Recording Question
- From: Marc DeLorenzo <midcapemarc@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:33:41 -0400
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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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