Tom,
I think you've explained this quite well.
73,
Ray Barley, WO2C
> My apologies to non radio hams for the next couple of paragraphs
but
> they do have some relevance to my nature recording hobby.
>
> Rich, it looks like a long wire does'nt it. In fact it is two
delta
> loops, one cut for 40m and one for 17m. The saltmarsh in the
> background of the photo is a terrific spot for HF DX. I go there a
> lot with my radio in my backpack and a vertical antenna fastened to
> the backpack frame. I talk as I walk and so far have contacted
120+
> DXCC countries and worked five continents.
>
> It was whilst doing this pedestrian mobile (/PM) operating that I
had
> my nature recording epiphany. I was using an MZ-R30 to record my
QSOs
> and hot having had too many that particular day I was making my way
> back home with the recorder running. A flock of Brent Geese
> approached and flew directly overhad to roost on the salt marsh 300
> yards away.
>
> Back home when I listened to the disc I was hooked.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom Robinson - G0SBW
>
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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