Bats and detectors

[K9 Kai Niggemann]

I will try tonight..
kai


 
On 04.10.2010, at 03:44, Tony Scharf wrote:

> Thats awsome!
> 
> Recordings?
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:14 PM, K9 Kai Niggemann <kai at kainiggemann.com> wrote:
>> Bat sounds.
>> 
>> I built a bat detector, actually a bat-scanner, one that scans from 10-80 Khz.
>> 
>> It's my first electronics project in a long time and I ordered a kit, complete with parts and case for 60 EUR, which was much easier for me at this point.
>> 
>> now I have the satisfaction of having built my own and listening to the erie sounds of the hunting bats (the last days of the season, I guess)
>> 
>> This is the kit I got:
>> 
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~bat-detector/Scanner/
>> 
>> ordered from his German friend Frank.
>> 
>> Since it's a (scanning) heterodyne detector (that means it is a sort of ringmodulator that makes the sounds audible by re-synthesizing them), the sounds itself sound a bit like a Synthi AKS. Not too bad, but nothing out of this world. But the moment of being able to hear what the bats are emitting is just beautiful. I was standing in awe in front of the church, passers-by probably thought I was having some sort of epiphany...;)
>> 
>> Kai
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