[CQ-Contest] Recording CQWW DX Contest on Your Computer

[Ken K6MR]

It’s been a while since I used it but I think there is a command line option to generate a single file.



For disk space, reduce your sample rate down to 8000.  That’s plenty for contest audio.



Audacity works well, and doubles as a great editor for phone voice keyer recordings.



Ken K6MR



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From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2017 10:32:42 AM
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Recording CQWW DX Contest on Your Computer


I'm curious how most of you serious competitors are recording the CQWW
DX CW contest?

I downloaded QSOrder by K3IT to use in N1MM Logger +.  After playing
around it looks like it just records individual files for each contact
you make. Looking at the CQWW rules  they say :

The recording must be in a common format (e.g., mp3) and should include
the audio to each ear as a separate channel. The recording must be a
continuous recording (not a recording of individual QSOs). Time “off the
air” (when not transmitting or receiving) does not have to recorded.

Maybe I don't have QSOrder setup correctly??? It appears this plugin to
N1MM Logger + wouldn't meet the requirements in the rules?  Another
option would to be to buy an external recorder and plug it into the LINE
OUT of your radio. The prices of these are from about $29 to some well
to the hundreds of dollars.

A free option to record the contest that I found was to download some
software named Audacity. I have a cable from my LINE OUT on the K3 going
to the LINE IN of my West Mountain Radio Rigblaster Advantage. The
SPEAKER OUT from it goes to the Microphone input on my computer. When
the contest starts you just start Audacity and press the record button
to start recording the contest. I made a one minute recording and the
file was 20 MB. That would mean one hour of recording would be 1200 MB.
The program shows how much recording time you have available. On my
computer it says 670 hours. I had 678 GB of space left on my hard drive.

Jeff KU8E


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