Topband: Recording Off the Air

[Steve Maki]

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 at 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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