3. Re: Beginner Equipment Question

["Rick Munday" baumann1965]

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> P.S. Vicki, that crackle is probably due to your mic cable having
> microphonic effects. It basically works like a big condenser microphone. =
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> fact, there are security systems that use this effect: you run a coaxial
> cable around the fence, and any bump to the fence is picked up by the
> cable.
> I think they can even tell what distance down the cable that happened at.=
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Yes sir! A depot I was stationed at years ago when I was in the Army used
something similar. There is enough of a measurable change that you can
indeed mark off "zones" in the system.