[amsat-bb] Logging and Recording Passes

[Oliver Krystal]

I use a headphone splitter through the handset and pass it into this: 
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BY4M7VU/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Good audio, comes with an audio cable.  Only records what comes through 
your headphones, but then again I know who I am and where I am.

Sorry Peter, hit the wrong reply button.

On 08/14/2016 10:19 AM, Peter Laws wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Gerald Payton <gp_ab5r at outlook.com> wrote:
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>> My questions are:   What is the most common used way of audio recording: a digital handheld recorder or computer software of some kind?  I will have a stationary station; not portable handheld.
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> I use my iphone.  I tried to use the recorder built in to my ID-51A+
> and quickly realized that it only records when I hit the PTT.
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>> Is it common to keep a personal log and then upload it to LoTW?  If so, what personal log program is commonly used?
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> I use DXKeeper.  Free.  Records all relevant data.  Once TQSL is
> configured, it will handle all LOTW functions.
> Directions here for getting started.  As Dave, AA6YQ, the author of
> the DXLab Suite of programs that includes DXKeeper is one of the ones
> that rescued LOTW from oblivion a few years back, much of this info is
> now on the LOTW site.  None of the directions here are intertwined
> with using DXKeeper but there are links to teach you how to do so:
> http://www.dxlabsuite.com/dxlabwiki/SettingUpLotW
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>> I listened to a AO-85 pass with my IC-2730A and a Comet GP-6 dual band base antenna, without any preamp, and was very good copy considering.  That was encouraging.
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> There is nothing between you and the satellites, usually, so signals
> are always strong on the LEOs.
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