I send it directly to the hotel/motel where I'm staying with a "Hold
for Arrival" notice on the label.
Bernie
>I've heard other people suggest this as well. Seems reasonable. Where do you
>send it to at your destination city? Your hotel? Can you just arrange to
>pick it up at the FedEx/UPS/Airbourne warehouse?
>
>Ed
>
>Wild Sanctuary wrote:
>
>> With the new Homeland Security mandates in place, it has become a
>> real problem to check audio gear through in baggage on the same
>> flight, especially if your field equipment is too large to fit (with
>> your clothes and other personal items) in a carry-on. The Transp.
>> Sec. Agency requires that all bags be left unlocked if they are to be
>> checked through as baggage so that they can be inspected by hand.
>> Locked bags are summarily broken into.
>>
>> On a recent flight taken by a colleague, several items (a DAT
>> recorder and microphone) were taken out of his Pelican case, never to
>> be recovered. Several of the latches arrived at the destination
>> unsecured. He was told that he could make a claim which rested on the
>> support of a review of video tape of events that occurred within the
>> baggage security zone of the airport from which he left, assuming, of
>> course, that they were still obtainable. Furthermore, the results of
>> his claim would remain unknown for from 4 - 6 months. Also, the
>> airlines typically will not now insure baggage containing electronic
>> equipment and it is subject to getting lost, as well.
>>
>> Additionally, if your bags exceed 61 linear inches and/or 70 pounds
>> in weight, you are charged an additional $80USD for each "offence."
>>
>> I'm addressing that problem by sending the baggage locked and insured
>> by Airborne Express, which has some really great rates for ground
>> delivery and even reasonable ones (providing someone else is paying)
>> for 2nd or 3rd day air. I just sent a 94 pound, 62 linear inch
>> Pelican case from my place to Denver via Airborne ground (3 day
>> delivery) for under $45. That way, it can be tracked and there is a
>> reasonable chance that one can recover something if, in fact, it is
>> lost.
>>
>> Anyone else having these problems?
>>
>> Bernie Krause
>>
>> Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
>> P. O. Box 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-996-6677 tel
>> 707-996-0280 fax
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
>>
>> >
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:23:17 2005
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:55:19 -0000
From: "evertveldhuis <>" <>
Subject: Re:Where did I go wrong?
--- In "jdmooreth <>"
<> wrote:
<CUT by Evert>
> 1. owlcam Asian barred owlet recorded with camcorder and
> Sound Professionals mic
> 2. owlmd Same bird, same time,same place, recorded on MD
> with Sony ECM 957 mic with Shure matching transformer, volume set
> to manual, about 50% gain.
> 3. drongocam Black drongo recorded with camcorder as above
> 4. drongomd Same bird etc on MD with Sony ECM 957 mic,
> plugged into mic input, no transformer, gain set to about 50%.
>
> When I got home and listened to no.4 I checked the Sony mic on the
> camcorder and it gave about the same level of gain as the Sound
> Professionals, so there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the
> battery.
> Basically, I'm not happy with any of the recordings, so Walt's
> comments on the HHB vs Marantz were very helpful.
>
> Regards
> John Moore
Hi John,
I took a listen to your MP3s and can imagina you're not satisfied.
The signal is drowning in noise :(
I do not think buying an far expensive recorder will solve this
problem the best way. Sure it will, but your problem is easy; I saw
in the MD recordings a DC offset of 25 to 30 dB
and in the CAMcorder it was -73 to -90 which are better values; the
higher this (negative) number the better.
I think your MD is faulty. Besides that, for nature recording you
*should* not use a MD model that has no mic-preamp-switch that can be
used for high and low levels. Since your model has not got this
switch, I suggest you return your model and get a recorder that
*does* have this switch. I think most people would have this setting
to 'low' so that selfnoise of the micpreamp is much less then on the
high setting. And I was told that MD recorders wihtout the switch are
comparable with the switch set to 'high'.
Regards, Evert
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