I think of clipping as in reaching the maximum audio level, not
clipping off a bit of sound. However, I can see why someone would think
that way. I could have sworn the audio sounded more distorted with the
clipping turned on, but it could be I was doing something else wrong at
the time.

Since I don't know the details in file format, I obviously have to
leave autosave up to you.However, the notion of RAW sounds good to me.
Even notebook HDs are big enough not to need compression for the local
file. I only compress for internet use.

Another idea might be an intentional user definable :"snip" at the end
of each segment of audio. Some scanners have an annoying squelch tail
that would sound better snipped off.

Lastly, perhaps the scanner recorder could be set up to either process
"live" audio or audio files. This way someone could record audio with
the Irver or Create Nuvo, then remove the gaps later. I've recorded
audio in locations where it really isn't all that handy to bring a
notebook computer.

These were done with the scanner recorder and a notebook computer.
http://www.lazygranch.com/red_audio.htm

This is a typical file with all the warts of mil air in field
recording:
http://www.lazygranch.com/sound/redf...pm308p6mp3.wav
Everything is simplex with constant changing distances. With AM, weak
signals really sound bad, so MP3 recording before processing just
doesn't work. The newer files I've done have been encoded in ADPCM. Not
all that dense, but much better quality.

http://www.lazygranch.com/sound/jane...v_07212005.wav

Here the planes on the ground are very wek since I don't have line of
sight. The audio would sound quite poor in mp3, but is passable in
ADPCM.