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Last nights pirate receptinand recording woes!
Last night, 2005 01 22EST, was a blast.
My 2nd(and 3rd,4rth, and 5th) pirate reception. I am mainly into utility monitoring. Was a different experience. I am rewiring my radio setup, added a 2nd R2000 and replaced my antenna/feedling and improved the ground. Last night was great, except, while recording WEAK radio, my PC locked up. Happens once or twice a year. So I LOST everything from 23:00Z on. CoolEdit froze, but gave no error message unitl I went to stop and save. #$#%^&@ PC! From now on I will record received stations on my PC AND a VHS HiFi with WWV (5 or 10 as is best) in the left with target audio in the right. I really don't know why I didn't think of this last night. I thought I might pass on this hard learned leason. I bought the VHS at a local Goodwill and it only needed a very good cleaning. I have a cheap "computer" camare that produces "real" NTSC video so the VCR will stay locked. Some VHS decks work fine without a video source, some require one. And some will let you interrupt the audio chain while leaving the "off air" video intact. Terry |
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I hate to reply to my own post, but for those VHS
VCRs that require video, I just remembered a URL that I found while searching for something else. members.aol.com/WA1ION/vcrdx.pdf Details how to record HF on a VHF deck. Didn't look too promising to me, but his solution to keep the VCR happy was to feed 60Hz into the video input. I haven't tried this so I can say if it will work.NTSC is 30Hz, (OK 29.97Hz) but this might be worth a try. Terry |
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