Why Use Recording Software?
There are several reasons to use scanner audio recording software.
It's great for recording scanner transmissions when you are unable to listen to your scanner at a particular time for whatever reason, and listen to it when it's more convenient.
It's great for recording police & fire channels that hardly ever have any activity and catch rarely heard conversations.
It's great if you want to record events such as pursuits or other interesting happenings and then share them via your Web page like here, or your Facebook page, blog, etc.
ScanRec Software
Although any audio recording software will work, there are some audio recording programs specifically designed for use with radio scanners.
I use ScanRec, which comes in a freeware, lite, and pro version. I like it because it works great and only records when a signal is actually present.
Voice Activated Recording (VOX)
ScanRec provides a switched voice activated (VOX) recorder that listens to the sound coming into the audio card and if the sound is above the minimum threshold, the recorder operates.
If the sound level falls below the threshold, the recorder pauses. This allows the user to save disk space when no sound is present in the signal.
The output WAV file also includes a text file log with the time stamp and duration of all transmissions recorded in the file. A link to download ScanRec is included below.
What You Will Need
Beside the software, you will need a 3.5mm mono or stereo male-male line jack such as the one pictured below.
You can find the line-in cable at any Radio Shack, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. for about $5.00
You simply plug one end into your headphone jack on your radio scanner and then plug the other end into the "Line In" jack of your computer's sound card or microphone jack on you laptop.
You can set the audio level of which Scanner Recorder starts to record the scanner's audio.
Scanner Recording Software Links:
Below are three of the most popular scanner recording programs available for download. You can also search Google using "scanner recording software" and look around in the results for a recording program you like.
+ Scanner Recorder
+ Xcorder
+ ID Tracker/ID Tracker II/ID Tracker III - ID Tracker's main purpose is to help find and identify new trunk system IDs. Supports recording of scanner audio to WAV files with time and date indexes.
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That's it for now, till next time, stay safe and happy scanning!
-RF
2 comments:
"Scanner Recorder" link above gows to a page that informs "The account has been suspended".
Indeed it has. Thanks for the heads up. You can download Scanner recorder here --> http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/Scanner-Recorder-Scanrec.shtml
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