Your contributions to the Audio section are most
welcome. Please keep in mind that recorded station
identifications use much server space and posting
them takes manual work, so to minimize server space
and to reduce our workload, please follow these
instructions when recording audio samples for DXing.info
Audio section:
- remember that only (local) station identifications
of longwave, mediumwave and shortwave broadcasting
stations (both domestic and international) are
posted on the site, no hobby pirates nor FM or
utility stations
- send only good quality recordings
- currently, please only send recordings in .mp3
format
- you may send recordings of your local stations,
the stations do not need to be rare catches for
you - they will still be interesting DX catches
to other DXers in other parts of the world
- check whether we already have a recording of
the station that you would like to send (if we
do, offer your recording only if yours is of much
better sound quality)
- contact DXing.info via Facebook saying what
you would like to offer, without including the
sound file(s) at this point
- for copyright reasons, record only the station
identification, and not music
- when encoding, 15 Kbps is good enough quality,
and 10-25 seconds is often enough in length. With
Real Media, 10 seconds would produce a file size
of about 21 kB and 25 seconds would be about 52
kB. Make your file longer and heavier only if
you have a good reason to do so, such as a long
and exceptionally interesting station identification.
- include information on the year and location
(country) of the recording in your email
- if you would like to further reduce work at
our end, follow the example used on the site in
naming files: frequency in kHz _ Station name
(without "Radio") _ contributor's last
name (and without empty spaces), e.g. 690_Recuerdos_burnell.mp3
- if you have only a few audio files to send,
send them as email attachments when asked to do
so. If you have more audio files, use a cloud
service.
- all contributors whose audio files or other
type of contributions are published on DXing.info
can have a profile article of themselves published
on the site.
You can email a picture of yourself (preferably
in .jpg format) and a short text by email to introduce
yourself to fellow hobbyists.
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