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 Post subject: Logging Scanner Audio
PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:47 pm 
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What is everyone using to record scanner audio to hard drive?

Ive got a BCD536HP and would like to get channel information as well if possible..

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:39 pm 
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I use ProScan http://www.proscan.org and find it to be the best I have ever used. It covers quite a few Uniden models and a very nice web server. The cost is $50.00 but worth every penny. You can stream your 536 using wifi.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:59 pm 
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Whistler's "EZ-Scan" software. Comes with the TRX 1/2.

Logs the date/time, type of transmission, your alpha tag, the frequency and NAC/RAN/CC/PL/DPL or whatever, talkgroup and radio ID whilst recording the audio.

Apparently there's a remote program to use it but I'm in the land of dial-up and plan to investigate next week.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:40 pm 
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I have lots of logging scanner audio. Weyerhaeuser, C&C Logging, Hadaller Logging. Associated Oregon Loggers etc


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:32 pm 
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If you use the built-in SD card for recording, all the metadata is there. Playing the files back in Winamp will show the system name and channel/TG tag:

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VLC oddly does not show any relevant information. The MediaInfo tool will show most of the fields:

Code:
General
Complete name                            : 2018-02-16_15-18-06.wav
Format                                   : Wave
File size                                : 329 KiB
Duration                                 : 20 s 900 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 129 kb/s
Track name                               : Bellevue Place Security 
Director                                 : Bellevue Place
Original source form/Distributed by      : Color 6
Encoded by                               : UID:1803
Genre                                    : Bellevue Place
Subject                                  : General
Recorded date                            : 20180216151827
Original source form/Name                : BCDx36HP
Copyright                                : ****************


It's missing the department information, as well as some others. Close call hits log most of the pertinent info, but strangely excludes the frequency in the logged hit. If you review the recordings in the scanner (Settings -> Replay Options -> Review Recordings) it does show the freq/department, so the info is obviously embedded somewhere in the WAV file, I just haven't figured out where.


I found two third-party tools on the internet; one was a HTML page that promised to generate a report based on the files in a directory; the other was an Excel workbook that would do more or less the same thing. Neither worked.

PS-the  character is a non-breaking space that shouldn't have been in there. Some sort of weird artifact from Excel that got put at the end of the TG name when I generated the template.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:58 am 
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Cool- Thanks everyone.

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