No link, just an annoying combination of noises. I could hear and see comme=
rcial jets, and someone was shooting something somewhere. I was in Murray S=
unset National Park. Might have been a ranger shooting feral goats or somet=
hing. Someone suggested sonic booms or bird scarers, I can't be sure.
I have to say I prefer faint gunshots to jets.
Peter Shute
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On 08/08/2013, at 7:47 PM, "John Campbell" <> wrote:
> Peter, could you please explain why you make a link between "gun shots" a=
nd
> that flight path? Were you near Puckapunyal?
>
> Thanks,
> John
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> 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 hund=
red
>> 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.
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 08/08/2013, at 1:38 PM, "lamprophis1963" <<mailto:
>> >> wrote:
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>>> Finding quiet spots is the biggest challenge. In Australia.....
>>
>> 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 Austral=
ia
>> 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.
>>
>> I was in New Zealand over Christmas this year and was amazed that althou=
gh
>> I was in a small town neighborhood where a lot of people lived, there wa=
s
>> little or no anthrophony that I could detect most of the time. It was a
>> welcome change to San Antonio, Texas where I live.
>>
>> Here in Texas, I tend to try to go out into the desert areas. One benefi=
t
>> of those areas is that I can put a mountain range between myself and a b=
usy
>> highway by taking a quiet road out into the desert. That generally works=
as
>> a decent sound buffer. Of course, I have to drive 4-5 hours to get that
>> kind of quiet.
>>
>> Somewhere I remember someone posting a link to the major airplane flyway=
s.
>> Staying out of those can help as well.
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