Hi!
I've not tried this yet but hope to do so in the coming days.
The DAR-101 from Sangean is designed to work with radio sets - in
particular the ATS-909X and CC 2 series - both of which also boast
facilities for a timer to turn the radio on and off at specific times
for recording, the DAR-101 has a built-in timer which can be set to
start and stop recording at specific times along with the turning on and
off of the radio connected to it.
Recording is to a SD card, 32GB cards are recommended.
The format is in MP3 with either of 3 bit rates, 64, 128 and 192K which
is quite acceptable for the recording of radio broadcasts, no PCM Wave
uncompressed setting which is unfortunate.
Microphones can be used with the DAR-101 if you wish to make voice
recordings, I'm not sure whether this recorder has built-in microphones,
if it does then nothing of this has been mentioned.
A nice addition to this recorder is a "Digital Out" connection, the
recordings can be played through a DAC or other Hi-Fi setup so better
quality audio may be enjoyed.
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