On May 14, Walter wrote:
> From: Walter Knapp <>
> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Guideline suggestions
>
> There should be accurate location information with the sample. Ideally,
> all samples would be submitted with a GPS reading. That may not be
> practical as there could still be people without GPS, ...
Is there a GPS instrument that will give a reading in a deep valley in a
mountainous area from beneath the continuous closed canopy of a rainforest,
100 feet or so above one's head?
That's the sort of situation I find myself in while studying lyrebirds. I'd
get such an instrument if it exists, but I fear that topography and canopy
preclude getting the necessary signals at ground level.
Likewise there's a lack of mobile phone contact in most of my lyrebird
areas, and I wonder (from the depths of my technological ignorance) whether
it would be possible to get phone contact by erecting an aerial and
connecting it to a phone - as one used to do to get an AM radio signal in a
remote area half a century ago. A catapult and line could be used to haul
an aerial well up towards the canopy.
Any comments?
Syd
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