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K3 -- DVR question

Joel R. Hallas
I recently added a digital voice module to my K3. It does everything it is
advertised to do, and does it very well.

One question occurs to me. The off the air recording feature is a real plus
and will be handy. Is there any way to extract a useful digital copy of the
recorded audio in a way that would be downloadable to the connected PC and
then stored in an easily recoverable way?

I know the audio could be resampled and stored using a sound card and PC
software, but that would add another A/D conversion. It would be nice to be
able to send someone the original data as a PC file of the way they sound,
rather than sending it over the air.

Regards, Joel
Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR

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Re: K3 -- DVR question

KK7P
Hello Joel!

> I recently added a digital voice module to my K3. It does everything it is
> advertised to do, and does it very well.
>
> One question occurs to me. The off the air recording feature is a real plus
> and will be handy. Is there any way to extract a useful digital copy of the
> recorded audio in a way that would be downloadable to the connected PC and
> then stored in an easily recoverable way?

I am not hopeful this can be done on a practical basis. The logic would
be pretty convoluted.  We'd have to snatch a small sample from the DVR
Flash, then buffer it in the DSP, then push it out the serial port to a
PC, which would need an application written to slurp up the RS232 data.
  After many iterations we could get the data across.  The PC would then
need a program to convert the data into some sort of recognizable, raw
samples.  I suspect a .WAV file is the most likely wrapper that could
then be put around it.

Thus, it requires MCU code for the K3, plus DSP code, plus a PC program.

> I know the audio could be resampled and stored using a sound card and PC
> software, but that would add another A/D conversion. It would be nice to be
> able to send someone the original data as a PC file of the way they sound,
> rather than sending it over the air.

I suspect resampling would add very little noise compared to the radio
link.  I suspect this is the best bet, again on a practical basis.

Sorry I can't be more positive :-(

73,

Lyle KK7P

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Brett Howard
Any positive words on the possibility of doing stereo recording when
using the KRX3?

> Sorry I can't be more positive :-(
>
> 73,
>
> Lyle KK7P
>
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