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Subject: Re: Intro
From: tony baylis <>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Daniel
>From my own experience, building your own parabolic
reflector will not turn out to be very low cost. 
Unless you are building a new size or type of
reflector give serious thought to purchasing one ready
made.
Tony.
--- Daniel De Granville <>
wrote:
> Hello everyone! 
> 
> My name is Daniel and I'm a biologist living in
> Bonito, Brazil (south of the Pantanal basin). My
> major interest is recording bird calls, for which -
> until last month - I used those cheap microcassette
> recorders. They worked fine for quite a while, but
> now a friend gave me a Sennheiser ME62 microphone to
> be used with a Sony MZ-N10 minidisc recorder. Big
> difference! 
> 
> The next steps for me are: 
> 
> 1) building a low-cost home-made parabolic
> reflector;
> 2) buying an efficient set of portable external
> speakers for playbacks,
> 3) learning tips and tricks.
> 
> I do have a couple of questions already, but will
> stick to only one for now (please excuse me if this
> has been discussed before): is there any way of
> transferring the recorded files from the MD to my PC
> via the USB cable (and not in real time using the
> MD's earphone outlet attached to the PC's mic
> inlet?). I spent the whole afternoon searching the
> web for a solution, but got no positive answers so
> far...
> 
> Thanks a lot,
>  
> Daniel De Granville
> Bonito, MS, Brazil
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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