An AM radio can also be used to determine the distance to a nearby thunder
storm. Listen to the loudest static crashes and count the seconds until you
hear the thunder, about 5 seconds to the mile. If the time interval is 0, I
hope you're in a building with a lightning rod!
Gary King
w4...@bellsouth.net
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From: "Steve Matzura" <numb...@noisynotes.com>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: A tip to overcome one of the annoying problems with the Zoom H1
A thousand percent agreeance with this technique. I used to keep a
cheap pocket AM radio on me for just these purposes. People used to
think I'd lost it! Then I actually did--lost the radio, that is,
never found another to replace it. Guess they don't make those things
much any more. You can figure out some amazing things by listening to
those noises. Like whether a PC has crashed or frozen or has just
lost speech but is otherwise operating, or even when the picture on
your TV set has gone wonky.
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:13:52 +0200, you wrote:
Dane
There are many of these weird things I use the induction loop coils in a
hearing aid for.
I can hear the hard disk of my iriver hard drive booting up for example.
And my cell phone to know if it's starting up or not.
If a normal hearing person can get hold of a small amplifier with an
induction loop built in, you will be able to check all kinds of
interesting things.
Andre
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From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org]
On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan
Sent: 02 November 2010 04:37 AM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: A tip to overcome one of the annoying problems with the Zoom H1
Hi!
Now this tip isn't going to be for everyone as not everyone wears hearing
instruments which can be used with induction loops but if you do? Well
here's a handy way to use your instruments to great effect when sorting
out
one of the very few functions of the Zoom H1 which isn't accessible.
I'm talking about the Bit and Sample rate of the file you're recording,
this
is changed in "Standby" mode by using the fast forward and rewind buttons,
rewind takes you back through the cycle whilst fast forward takes you
forward through the cycle of bit and sample rates.
When recording using Wave Broadcast format you cycle through 44.1KHZ 16
Bit,
48KHZ 24 bit and so on right the way up to 96KHZ 24 and back to 44.1KHZ 16
bit so how to tell where you are.
Well turn your instruments to pick up induction loops and put the recorder
near them. Now start recording, you'll be able to hear the recorder as it
writes to the SD card and the slower the rate of writing then the small
the
sample size, 44.1KHZ 16 bit has the Zoom H1 writing to the SD card about
every half second whilst 96KHZ 24 bit has the H1 writing to the SD card
every sixth of a second or so.
Just thought others may find this helpful as I do, still haven't worked
out
a way to set the date and time for date/time stamping of recordings but I
have to admit to not trying too hard, after all! one can change all that
when the files are copied from the H1 to your computer.
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