Recording DX Catches!

[SomeRadioGuy]

I know quite a few of us record our DX, but alot of people still don't. I've run into some old timers who flat out refuse to record, with one telling me "My written log and my word should stand for itself and be enough".

Quite a few people record on computer but I dont for multiple reasons

A.) Potential interference introduced into your DXing system (not very likely but Im taking every advantage I can to reduce interference)

B.) you're Mobile.

I try to come up with ways to do things that anyone, even if they arent too handy can do, with parts/equipment they can get easily no matter where they are.

I use a Zoom H1 digital handheld recorder fed by it's line in port from the rca outputs of my radio and I listen using the headphones in the audio out jack.

I shot a short video a year or two ago after I had a few questions on how to set this up, and its easier to show then try and explain. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxA3DkITExU

I know there's one or two DX'ers on this list I've specifically encouraged and been able to help set up with more or less this same system. I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong but if you dont record, you should.. it makes it much easier for stations and in some cases, believeable when they hear it rather then just read a report. I love DXing and I just want peopel to get the most out of it like I know is possible, like I do.

Paul

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Hya Paul ....

My Folks got me a wee Lafayette tape recorder for a Christmas 1962 gift. It had solely a recording microphone the size of a small bar of soap.

So of course, I went nuts using it to record stations -- mostly non-local ones -- for a decade. Many of those old 7-inch reels from long ago have been transferred to cassette, and then to mP3.

Every so often nowadays I'll find some cassette recorder to snatch recent DX ID's on the AM band. I have maybe four of these security devices here, poised for that purpose. To me, the fidelity and accuracy works just fine for AM radio.

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I know of DXers who would not claim (to *their* satisfaction) a station as a 'heard / logged' catch if there was no returning QSL card or letter. But to me and others, a taped ID was not just desirable but sufficient.

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While on a basement paint job off a GE SR II, I caught and taped a 1480 station from some 450 miles off one early sunset. I was just outside Minersville PA at the time. The reception had to've been of the winter/daytime skip variety. Oldies WDJO Cincinnati. I have the snippet from them, with meteorologist Heather Zayre (sp?) outroing the weather and IDing the station. At the time I was fortunate and wise enough to haul along a new $29 cassette recorder from Wal-Mart. That house, a standalone de\welling, and that basement was real quiet.

 

[boombox4]

My DX radios, for the most part, do not have easy recording facilities. I DX using headphones, which means that the radio's clean outlet is used already.

I do record some DX on MW and SW whenever I'm using my Grundig G2, as it has a built-in recorder which seems to work reasonably well. I use it mostly to record SW, though.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

My DX radios, for the most part, do not have easy recording facilities. I DX using headphones, which means that the radio's clean outlet is used already.

I do record some DX on MW and SW whenever I'm using my Grundig G2, as it has a built-in recorder which seems to work reasonably well. I use it mostly to record SW, though.

you could do with your G2 what i did...... audio out of the headphone jack to the recorders input and headphones plugged into the output of the recorder