[cma-l] Fwd: [comradio-l] Community Radio recording for legalpurposes

[Two Lochs Radio]

Hi Norman

I think most stations record from the last practical point in the audio 
chain feeding the transmitter, rather than actually off-air. Of course it 
must be at a point where there is no provision for any alternative audio to 
be fed in after it (eg after any silence/breakdown detector), and if such a 
device is located remotely (ie at the transmitter) then I guess you would 
need to record actually off air.

There are pros and cons to both methods, but I think for most people actual 
off-air is usually done only when needing to investigate technical problems 
such as interference.

We take our recording feed from a parallel connection to the output of the 
transmission audio processor which is then fed on into the transmitter link. 
The only thing that gets inserted after that is the RDS data, and that has 
no audio in it.

Alex
Two Lochs Radio

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Subject: [cma-l] Fwd: [comradio-l] Community Radio recording for 
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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> From: Norman Polden <haymere at uwclub.net>
>
> Reference the "keep recording for 42 days" for legal purposes.
>
> Does the recording of the station output have to be off of a completely
> independent radio receiver (as I think I was told by someone when I was
> doing RSL's) or can it be off of the audio chain after the desk ?
>
> I would appreciate some clarification on this one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Norman Polden, Station Manager, Flame CCR.
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