How to connect Sirius Sportster to PC to record Howard?

January 8, 2006 4:53 AM

I have the Sportster Replay and the boombox only (no home kit, etc) and I want to be able to record Howards first show on my computer using windows media encoder. Need help with hook up and settings please...

I found this post and bought the stuff at Radio Shack today but either I'm doing something wrong or the setup he explains requires additional hardware that I don't have. Here is the post:

"Go to Radio Shack and purchase a Headphone Cable Y-Adapter 1/8 and a Stereo Audio Cable 1/8 (male-male ends). Total - $10
Connect the Y-adapter to your Sirius receiver audio out, if you’re using speakers plug your speakers into one of the Y feed lines, plug the Stereo Audio Cable into the other Y feed line and the other end of the Stereo Audio Cable into your computers sound card (mic). Download Windows Media Encoder..."

Ok, is this what the problem is..."Connect the Y-adapter to your Sirius receiver audio out" ??? My boombox only has aux in or headphones, not audio out...unless headphones=audio out??

Obviously, I'm clueless here so I hope I made sense...I would appreciate any advice on the cheapest way to be able to record the shows (I can't really afford new hardware, if that can be avoided) Thanks in advance!

OH! Forgot to mention I have a TV/FM tuner card that allows me to record FM radio as a wave file. Couldn't I just tune that fm tuner to pick up the audio and record that way? Or would a wav file be too large or otherwise not a good option?

THANK YOU!!

posted by camfys to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Don't even bother. Just go to alt.binaries.howard-stern after the show and download it. There are many people already doing what you want to do and posting it in a vareity of formats.
posted by quibx at 4:59 AM on January 8, 2006

Quibx speaks volumes regarding the almost immediate availability of Howards recent and old shows on alt.binaries.howard-stern.

I also have a Sportster Relay and I also toyed with the idea of recording Howard but I decided to leave it up to others who actually know what they're doing.

"amputees are the only things funnier than midgets" -Jackie Martling
posted by Makebusy7 at 5:22 AM on January 8, 2006

yes, headphones=audio out
posted by horsemuth at 6:45 AM on January 8, 2006

...oh and just go with Giganews for binaries. You'll get the best retention and when you first download all the a.b.h-s headers, you'll be in Howard Wonderland.
posted by Makebusy7 at 6:46 AM on January 8, 2006