Yup. There are dozens of little recorders that work well for making
continuous recordings, I've been using a Roland R09 that I've had for
many years.
If I want to go to the trouble, I chop up the recording into one hour
files using the wonderful MP3DirectCut, which is extremely fast at that
task because it doesn't do any re-encoding - it merely cuts on MP3 frame
boundaries, and creates the proper header info for each file.
I was interested in the OP's suggestion because it purports to make one
hour recordings on the fly, which would save that step, and also be a
safer way to do a whole contest without having to worry about a glitch
in hour 47 that ruins the whole file.
-Steve K8LX
On 01/28/20 11:53 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
I use a Sony ICD-UX560 Its MP3 files names are just numbers with an
underscore which are easy to transfer to a PC. It is a tiny 2oz device
that takes almost no operating space and it works quite well.
John KK9A
Steve Maki K8LX wrote:
There was one comment on Amazon complaining about the file naming by
this recorder - that after some number of 1 hour files, characters not
allowed by Windows started appearing in new file names (<, ?, etc.).
That would be a fatal flaw of course.
What do the file names look like in your experience when you plug the SD
card into a PC? Easily identifiable by hour? Have you tried recording
for 48 hours?
Thanks,
-Steve K8LX
On 01/25/20 10:21 AM, W7RH wrote:
Someone asked about recording off the air. Outside of using a PC and
associated resources here is an excellent device that is inexpensive
and works extremely well.
It records 1 hour segments and clock can be set to UTC time. Fast
forward and reverse and a over one thousand hours recording on a 16Gb
memory card using 64kbs bitrate. It goes up to 192kbs for high quality
recording. Internal mic, external mic and line in connections. Analog
and digital output. Very cool. works extremely well and very easy to use.
https://www.amazon.com/Sangean-DAR-101-Professional-Digital-Recorder/dp/B003XU76QK/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=sangean+digital+recorder&qid=1579965300&sr=8-2
Bob, W7RH
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