Subject: What are Long Recording Options?
From: Dan Graves
Date: 4/24/04 2:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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I'm trying to come up with some ideas for recording radio broadcasts
from 2-4 hours long. What would be some options for doing this?
I use a Sony digital voice recorder (dvr) -- up to 5 hrs, 30 min. of recording
length at the longest setting. For talk radio, it has decent quality at that
setting. Mine has a USB port, so I can upload what I've recorded to the
computer and record something else. The Sony software can convert the file to
several different bit rates, mono or stereo, in .wav format, if you want to
burn it to a CD. You can listen to what you've recorded on your computer or
transfer it back to the dvr later on. I like the portability and the fact you
can index where you left off listening so you can resume at that same point. I
hook it up to a FM transmitter in the car and listen to it over the car stereo.
The one downside is that it uses AAA batteries (about 8 hours per charge), so
rechargeables are recommended (there's no AC option on my model). My works
well to tape C2C using a DX-394 with it's five timers.
Allen
Allen