Walt, you wrote,
>Note we had one member who related using a minidisc out in the
>rainforest without any protection except to put tape over the case
>seams. Somehow his recorder survived that and recorded. He said there
>was water running through the case. I don't recommend that, however.
On my last day in New Zealand last year I was on Tiritiri Matangi
Island. It started to rain when I got out on a rainforest trail. I
sheltered my mike under the bill of my baseball cap and got some good
recordings of birds, rain, and wind. I figured it was my last day,
and I'd record till the equipment quit. Eventually, after I'd worked
my way from the ridge down to the beach and recorded some waves
lapping, the Sharp MD-MT90 locked up.
Back in Auckland, I dried the recorder out with a hand-dryer in a
rest room, but it stayed locked in record-pause. I wasn't able to get
the disc out till I took the machine apart on the service bench at
home. I felt lucky that all my recordings were ok. I made a habit of
stopping after each take.
-Dan Dugan
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