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[IRCA] Mobile DX Recording Question



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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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