Thanks, folks for the various responses. Some fellas at Purdue asked
me about
it since they had just purchased a whole bunch of them.
Bernie
On Mar 21, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
> I used one in Papua New Guinea and north Queensland these last few
> days, it failed on me in the humidity of 98% (wettest rainy season too
> since 1974) For monitoring this is a great machine, the mic pre's are
> extremely noisy (i use one with its own built in mic) but i was able
> to monitor dawn chorus's and night time critters. determining where to
> leave my MS system. I was hoping to find various bird of paradise in
> and around PNG, i recorded over 30 hours of data in 3 days (for which
> I'm still going through) In queensland, the recorder failed on me and
> i could not start it until i dried it out with hairdryers but i got
> some great frog sounds which helped me determine where certain species
> where frequenting.
> I have a froglogger too for which i use a marantz recorder and my own
> mics but i have not tried the froglogger in tropical climates.
>
> Sounds to come :)
>
> Martyn
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