> From: Wild Sanctuary <>
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> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:19:44 -0700
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> Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Long cable questions
>
> In Africa I sometimes use a 100m (310ft) cable. No problem (except
> when you leave it out overnight and the field rats and mice get a
> crack at it). If you're running a very long cable, best to insure
> that most of it is suspended off the ground.
>
> Bernie Krause
>
I endorse that for Australia too. In '68 when I started recording lyrebirds
using long cables, Norman Robinson (CSIRO Div. of Wildlife) warned me always
to keep them up off the ground for that reason. I always have, but still
have had some insulation chewed off, I assume from where the cable crossed a
branch and by chance a rat happened along the branch.
Syd Curtis in Brisbane, Australia.
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