Peter, could you please explain why you make a link between "gun shots" and
that flight path? Were you near Puckapunyal?
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
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> It's probably much easier to find quiet spots here in Australia, but you
> can still have to go a long way and choose the time and spot carefully. A
> recording I posted a link to here a year of so ago was made several hundr=
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> kilometres inland, 100km from any town, in the middle of a national park.
> It turns out it's under the Melbourne to SE Asia flight path, and I can
> hear faint gun shots every few minutes all the way through.
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> Peter Shute
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> On 08/08/2013, at 1:38 PM, "lamprophis1963" <<mailto:
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> > Finding quiet spots is the biggest challenge. In Australia.....
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> Wow. I would think in Australia it would be pretty easy to find quiet as
> long as you got away from the coast. Some of the areas in inland Australi=
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> I've been to were pretty free of any anthrophony. Here in the US it is a
> lot harder to find quiet areas as I am sure it is in Europe.
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> I was in New Zealand over Christmas this year and was amazed that althoug=
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> I was in a small town neighborhood where a lot of people lived, there was
> little or no anthrophony that I could detect most of the time. It was a
> welcome change to San Antonio, Texas where I live.
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> Here in Texas, I tend to try to go out into the desert areas. One benefit
> of those areas is that I can put a mountain range between myself and a bu=
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> highway by taking a quiet road out into the desert. That generally works =
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> a decent sound buffer. Of course, I have to drive 4-5 hours to get that
> kind of quiet.
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> Somewhere I remember someone posting a link to the major airplane flyways=
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> Staying out of those can help as well.
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