Hi

Is there anything like AM radio tuner that works under slackware?
I can see a lot of FM/TV tuners but i cannot find AM tuner.

I'd like to record my AM shows on the hard drive to mp3.
Does anyone know about something like that or know how to do it?

Thank you very much for help

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Ralph

On 2006-12-22, Ralph <onkr@remove.op.pl> wrote:
>
> I'd like to record my AM shows on the hard drive to mp3.
> Does anyone know about something like that or know how to do it?

Get an am radio w/ earphone plug and run a patch cord to
your sound card line in. You'll hafta record wav and then convert to
mp3. You can get a patch cord from ratshack.

nb

notbob wrote:
> On 2006-12-22, Ralph <onkr@remove.op.pl> wrote:
>> I'd like to record my AM shows on the hard drive to mp3.
>> Does anyone know about something like that or know how to do it?
>
> Get an am radio w/ earphone plug and run a patch cord to
> your sound card line in. You'll hafta record wav and then convert to
> mp3. You can get a patch cord from ratshack.
>
> nb

Yes i was thinking about that unfortunately i need to record many radio stations. I'm building the
system based on Slackware that will be recording shows and storing them on the HDD. I need the way
to record as many radio stations as possible using one computer. Right now im trying to figure out
the way to do that as efficiently as possible.

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Ralph

Ralph <onkr@remove.op.pl> wrote:
> Is there anything like AM radio tuner that works under slackware? I can
> see a lot of FM/TV tuners but i cannot find AM tuner.

A quick search on google and some surfing gave the following pages:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Audio
http://whats.all.this.brouhaha.com/?p=199
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/RadioSHARKSource

I have no experience from the above hardware myself though. It seems as if
you will need to run a 2.6 kernel.

regards Henrik
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Ralph wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there anything like AM radio tuner that works under slackware?
> I can see a lot of FM/TV tuners but i cannot find AM tuner.
>
> I'd like to record my AM shows on the hard drive to mp3.
> Does anyone know about something like that or know how to do it?
>
> Thank you very much for help
>
> --
>
> Ralph

It looks doable -- which is not the same as I've done it. Unless you
plan to run a collection of cheap receivers controlled by timers of
some sort into your sound card for digitization, you will need a
digital reciever with a PC interface. That will cost $250 and up --
maybe a lot up. Try the following Google search for a lot of
interesting links "digital shortwave receivers pc interface linux".
(Note that most digital shortwave receivers will receive the medium
wave AM band -- 530-1700KHz as well -- but you'd want to check before
buying).

Here's a promising looking link -- http://www.linradio.com/sources.htm