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Re: (meteorobs) Re: microphone for sonic booms



Ed Majden wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patrice Scattolin"
>Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Re: microphone for sonic booms
>  
>
>>How about a tent structure. Nylon or some other hydrofuge material. The
>>sides could even
>>be open for better sound transmission. 
>>    
>>
>
>Patrice:
>    I wonder if a mic could be mounted under a thin plastic dome which could
>be heated to prevent moisture problems?  If it was like the sonic boom I
>heard on the early morning of December 17, 1996, I don't think where the
>microphone was located would be a problem.
>

Something like a tupperware salad bowl? I am wondering what it would do 
to the directionality
of frequency response. A rigid structure won't be as transparent
to sound though. It would have to be tried.

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