Re: [IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK - you've touched the necessary bases. What you need is either one of the
options Bill suggested or the one someone else suggested to moderate the
level.

But I have another suggestion which is both inexpensive and non-technical
and which might work. There's a Micro Center in Boston. They stock a
Sabrent USB sound card which runs about $10 and is plug-in via a USB port.



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

AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip


On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Marc DeLorenzo <midcapemarc@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Russ Edmunds-
>
> I have the recording level set to absolute minimum and it is still
> distorting.  Have also tried "Set recording level automatically" with same
> problem.  Recording specs are "MPEG Layer-3, 16 kbits, 11 025 Hz, Mono"
> which I have used successfully on 4 different PC's over the past 13 years.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Marc DeLorenzo
> South Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
>  http://forums.wtfda.org/showthread.php?228-DeLorenzo-s-Classic-DX
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question
>
> What settings are you using ? Knowing that I might be able to make a
> suggestion or two which might improve things to a more tolerable result.
> First thing I'd try is cutting the recording level in TR back by increments.
>
> Russ Edmunds
> 15 mi NW Phila
> Grid FN20id
> <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> AM: Modified Sony ICF2010's (2) barefoot w/whip
> FM: Yamaha T-80 & T-85, each w/ Conrad RDS Decoder;
> Onkyo T-450RDS; Tecsun PL-310 ( 2);
> modified Sony ICF2010 w/APS9B @ 15';
> Grundig G8 w/whip; modified Sony ICF2010 w/whip
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Marc DeLorenzo via IRCA <
> irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>> From: Marc DeLorenzo <midcapemarc@xxxxxxx>
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>> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:33:41 -0400
>> Subject: Mobile DX Recording Question
>>
>> 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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