[ILQSO] Driving and logging

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

I've had good success using a Sony ICD-PX312 digital voice recorder. It got 
 it for about $60 at Office Max.
 
It will record something like a week of audio with the standard memory.  
Playback can be done at up to 2X real time, keeping proper audio pitch. That 
is  quite a hoot when real time was 40 wpm CW!  OTOH you can also play back 
at  1/2 speed, which turns 40 wpm CW into something that can be copied by 
mere  mortals.
 
It has provision for using line level audio input, so you can just plug it  
into the speaker jack, or more likely a splitter feeding your headphones 
and the  recorder.
 
73  -  Jim  K8MR
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/25/2013 4:36:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jfunk at fossna.com writes:

I tried  logging on a cassette recorder for awhile. What I found was that I 
could hear  the incoming data just fine when I transcribed the tape, but 
the outgoing was  blown away by RF from the transmitter.  

I also found that  transcribing from a tape (even a couple of hours) is 
approximately as exciting  as watching paint dry.  Back when I was in college, 
we taped the entire  24 hours of CW SS (it didn't occur to us that it was 
unethical...).  Two  of us spent our spare time for over two weeks 
transcribing it.  We never  finished.

And yes, Hal has operated in ILQP a couple of times, with  great success.  
I'd like to get him back again if anyone can put a bug in  his ear about 
that....

73, Jim  N9JF