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lambchopp59

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10. Which brings me back to my first essential pupose. Taking all my audio "off grid" reliably as well.
Thu May 25, 2017, 07:35 PM
May 2017

I can't record the radio on my Ipod, which is mostly how/what I catch up on the last couple weeks of my favorite public radio shows, all recorded from timered units while I'm at work, and more importantly to me: foolproof. Every set up, even expensive ones to do this to CD at first, then later other digital formats were subject to glitches. Fatal ones. Either nothing recorded, often and then I'm stuck off-grid with only the satellite radio. On the other end, the digital players quit the first time it's dropped or bumped, or just plain inexplicably quits. After a few rounds of this, returning warrantied I pods for repair, all for them to quit again... arrrrgh.
I'm also around any proprietary infringement, since it's all for my personal use.
I started with recording that on a D-battery recorder (with surprisingly long battery longevity on dollar store D cells!)
I gave up. I reverted to analog media, mechanical timers and cassettes.
Advantage also: when I'm off grid it's outdoor work for days in hot and dusty conditions. The relatively tough cassette construction can take the beating for as long as i have use for it. "quality sound" comes in second to having it there.
When I'm back on-grid, they all go back to the recorders.
Also, the simple D-battery recorder there can analog what I missed that day, as I don't spend much time near the radio there.
Nitram, I've tried various digital routes of what suits my purpose a dozen different setups. They are all long gone into the recycle bin, I threw up my hands and reverted.
What I've disposed of in plastic digital audio over the last couple decades could fill a moderate sized room. Even my brother, who is far more tech-savvy than I, had set me up with the newest, best quality digital stuff he could rig up for me, I don't have the time. It all quit with barely a year's use.
That D-cell cassette recorder has already lasted over 10 years.
I've already bought units that will far more likely last to do this stuff for me over my entire retirement. I won't have hundreds of dollars to spend on more set-ups then.

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