Underground Role for A-T's PRO42

The versatility of Audio-Technica's range of microphones has been demonstrated with the use of A-T ProPoint mics in a purpose-built badger sett at a Welsh country park. 

Flintshire County Council's Countryside Service has constructed the sett, with its earth-lined tunnels leading out into woodland, at Wepre Park, at Connah's Quay on Deeside. Specialist sound systems suppliers Apple Sound, based nearby at Mold, supplied the Audio-Technica microphones for the sett to allow people in the visitor centre at the 168-acre combined recreation and conservation site to see and hear inside the badgers' home.  Audio-Technica PRO42 boundary microphones were installed by Phil Redman of CQD International for the camera and also in the walls of each of the three chambers of the sett, out of reach of the sharp teeth of any inquisitive badger residents. 
Once the project - sponsored by Airbus UK, Apple Sound, CQD International, International Power and Toyota Manufacturing UK Ltd - was completed, Wepre Park's Countryside Rangers invited the BBC to take a look who agreed to run a webcam by taking a feed off the three cameras installed in the sett. The Wepre Park Badger Cam can be viewed at www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/webcams/.

(Press Release dated 23 February 2001)

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