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Subject 1: (Sound Effects). Subtitle: Unpacking camping gear. Timecode In: 00:23:56. Timecode out: 00:29:39. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Andre Fortin, Elizabeth Arnold. Timecode In: 01:10:25. Timecode out: 01:22:40. Notes: Electronic communications discussion. Equipment Notes: Subject 1 is decoded MS stereo; DPA4006 omni mics; Sonosax preamp. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: North Pole Log of DAT #: 2 "Resolute #1" Date: 4/25/99 ng = not good ok = okay g = good vg = very good 1:28 driving to midcamp in Resolute (MS), quiet voices 4:17 getting out of truck/van with door slam 6:36 backing up truck through snow drifts 7:20 walking through snow/wind to midcamp (WW) 8:44 Bill breathing and snorting as he walks through the snow with snow hitting mics 10:03 voices begin as walking continues (mic is loose inside zeplin) 13:57 EA: You all right? BM: Well, my glasses have frosted over. ¿walking continues¿ EA 14:26 I still don't really see the tent. ¿walking continues¿mic is rattling¿ 17:09 Arrive at tent Unidentified Voice: Hello in there! You guys still alive? Can you untie the flap? We just had to walk about half a mile. The snow drifts are so deep I had to park the van back on the road. There's one big one out here we would have never made it through. Can you untie one more? 18:22 Unzipping noises 19:04 Climbing into tent 19:38 How'd it go? CP? 19:41 It was great. It was great. It was howling wind all night long, but protected from it. It was super. 20:00 Talking inside tent, packing up sleeping bags EA 21:36 So everybody stayed nice and toasty? CP 21:38 Well, not toasty, but warm enough. 22:56 Mike: You've got all those little weird things you do when you're doing electronics out here instead of just whatever¿ 24:00 Lots of sounds of sleeping bags being packed (Bad mic handling?) 24:50 g- Many zipping sounds 28:00 Some speaking, mostly sounds of packing sleeping bags 29:37 Back outside tent with winds and snow blowing, people inside tent talking 31:18 snow hitting mic/wind blowing 32:45 Walking around tents outside, people talking in background 34:00 Walking back to van 34:50 background voices 36:44 shovel in snow (g) , walking away, voices off to side in distance, someone walks by 38:20 more voices, walking 40:00 tent scraping, people move about, wind 42:00 walk back to van 44:13 getting into something, people in van, conversation about ice thickness 55:00- SPACED OMNIS 1:00:00 stepping outside of azzis, walking 1:05:10 g arctic wind 1:07:50 dog whines in background 1:08:04 dog whines again 1:09:04 Door to house opens, Andre and EA approach EA 1:10:17 First of all, tell me your name. AF 1:10:19 I'm Andre Fortin, I work for NASA and I'm here to test some communication equipment that we recently developed at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. EA 1:10:28 Now what do you do for NASA? AF 1:10:30 I'm a software engineer, sometimes I do a little bit of hardware, and work on ground and space network stations. EA 1:10:40 Have you ever been up here before? AF 1:10:42 No, no, this is my first time in the Arctic. I've spent some time in the Antarctic with some space network ground stations, but this is my first time this far north. EA 1:10:49 So what are you specifically doing here? AF 1:10:53 Well, we're testing three systems that the space network has developed, the smallest of which is a small system called Portcom which is several years old, and it's a very small, portable, transmit-only system, battery-powered, very small, fits in your hand, very small dish, transmits a very low bit-rate, very low data-rate, but it's transmit-only, that's one system, and we use that for demonstrations to show people the capabili... (Notes truncated)
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