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Re: Your homemade quick parabolic mic.

Subject: Re: Your homemade quick parabolic mic.
From: "deer2me22002" <>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 01:45:47 -0000
Dear Walter
           I am very delighted with your pictures of  the homemade 
parabolic mic you made, and am intending to try to build one myself 
to use in the woods next month. I have a few more questions on this 
mic if you would not mind answering them. My first question will 
probably sound very off the wall to you, but i was wondering if using 
a large plastic salad bowl or similar desighn for a reflector? I was 
also wondering what kind of foam you were refering to when you 
metioned using it in your mic, and also would you fill in the whole 
handle and T with this, besides in the cap with the mic, and just 
leave the peice of PVC with the cutout holes empty of this foam? How 
do you go about finding the focus point of the reflector to be?Should 
i cement all the caps , including the mic cap? Also were the holes 
already inthe pvc pipe or did you cut them yourself, if so what did 
you use to do this so neatly? Would the part with the holes in it be 
cemented to the T, or another way? And lastly, how would the mic be 
mounted in the cap with foam? 
                              Thanking you greatly:
                              John E Parks..



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