After 3 months of wrestling with Windoze Vista, Audacity, and Realtek, I have finally got the news recordings taped. Until today, I was having major problems with inputs and outputs being turned off at random. Curse Windoze of the Vista era. Curse Audacity.
As of this morning, the VK6 news content will be complete and loaded to the website as an MP3 file BEFORE it goes to air on a Sunday Morning. If you live remotely from Perth and wish to use the file for rebroadcasting feel free, so long as it is not edited.
The Local news is at http://www.vk6.net/newswest-index.html and right click the vk6 audio this week bar then save the file.
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I use audacity for all my audio recording and editing without any problems. Sure it isn't the audio drivers? Oh wait, you said Vista. That might be half the problem. Not sure how Vista handles recording inputs but earlier version of windows lets you select one input for recording - eg if you select "Microphone" then everything else will be unselected (That's using the system volume control). Same with Audacity... the source selector in the top right corner has the same effect and each affects the other. I fall for that when I use line-in for something and then start up a QSO with echolink; have to switch back to mike. It would be nice if any app could select any source independently.
I didn't hear the drop-out this morning that some reported. 6RUF sounded good to me.
I didn't hear the drop-out this morning that some reported. 6RUF sounded good to me.
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I'm getting a "file not found" errorDanger Mouse wrote: The Local news is at http://www.vk6.net/newswest-index.html and right click the vk6 audio this week bar then save the file.
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The requested URL /news/news.mp3 was not found on this server
The link for last week seems to be working ok though
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I had dreadful reception this morning, on both the handheld radio and the scanner listening on VK6RAP. I've spent this arvo (well, part of it) re-running the earth to the HF and moving the scanner's antenna - I'll try listening to the re-run tonight. Most frustrating, but nothing to do with the repeater, something I've done here... Only new thing is the power supply but I turned that off and it made no difference.robbage wrote:I didn't hear the drop-out this morning that some reported. 6RUF sounded good to me.
Audacity was initially written for *nix platforms as far as I know. I have never used the Windoze version but I can say that it works great on Linux. I use it daily and only ever run into problems once in a blue moon.
If you want something to use on a Windows machine you could try looking at something like Cool Edit or Nero Wave Editor (both you have to pay for, of course) but they are good programs.
I'm sure there would be some other free/open source audio editing applications out there, google be your friend
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If you want something to use on a Windows machine you could try looking at something like Cool Edit or Nero Wave Editor (both you have to pay for, of course) but they are good programs.
I'm sure there would be some other free/open source audio editing applications out there, google be your friend
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I think the problem reports were for the 2m signal so it might not be you. I was on 70cm.meg wrote:I had dreadful reception this morning, on both the handheld radio and the scanner listening on VK6RAP. I've spent this arvo (well, part of it) re-running the earth to the HF and moving the scanner's antenna - I'll try listening to the re-run tonight. Most frustrating, but nothing to do with the repeater, something I've done here... Only new thing is the power supply but I turned that off and it made no difference.robbage wrote:I didn't hear the drop-out this morning that some reported. 6RUF sounded good to me.
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The news started of reasonable this morning on VK6RMW but towards the end the volume was dropping off. A couple noticed it and commented on the callback. The audio however on VK6RMS (Mt Saddleback) was strong throughout. VK6RMW takes the audio from VK6RAP somehow I think and VK6RMS from the UHF link. So a possible problem exists on the RAP audio section somewhere.robbage wrote:I think the problem reports were for the 2m signal so it might not be you. I was on 70cm.meg wrote:I had dreadful reception this morning, on both the handheld radio and the scanner listening on VK6RAP. I've spent this arvo (well, part of it) re-running the earth to the HF and moving the scanner's antenna - I'll try listening to the re-run tonight. Most frustrating, but nothing to do with the repeater, something I've done here... Only new thing is the power supply but I turned that off and it made no difference.robbage wrote:I didn't hear the drop-out this morning that some reported. 6RUF sounded good to me.
Meg, what I am trying to say in a round about way is you are not the only one who noticed this, and nothing that you have done to your setup caused it.
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I've used both and the differences are negligible, other than the usual OS differences. Great value for money Ripped all my vinyl using it. I mean my parents' vinyl.Bonez wrote:Audacity was initially written for *nix platforms as far as I know. I have never used the Windoze version but I can say that it works great on Linux. I use it daily and only ever run into problems once in a blue moon.
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Working nowmeg wrote:I'm getting a "file not found" errorDanger Mouse wrote: The Local news is at http://www.vk6.net/newswest-index.html and right click the vk6 audio this week bar then save the file.
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The requested URL /news/news.mp3 was not found on this server
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Not sure why that error occuured for those who bombed trying to download from the site. I had about 4 complaints, but it does work.
I wonder if there is a limit on access for download at any one time?????
ie: two people do it, they get it, but if three people do it, one gets the dreaded 404....
I wonder if there is a limit on access for download at any one time?????
ie: two people do it, they get it, but if three people do it, one gets the dreaded 404....
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