{"id":3742,"date":"2008-10-10T14:29:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/road-testing-the-nagra-ares-bb-ana-kondic\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:33:05","slug":"road-testing-the-nagra-ares-bb-ana-kondic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/road-testing-the-nagra-ares-bb-ana-kondic\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Testing the Nagra Ares BB+ &#8211; Ana Kondic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>from Ana Kondic at the University of Sydney<\/em>]<br \/>\nI have just spent eight months doing field work in Mexico where I used a Nagra Aress BB+ (with a Sony ECM-MS 957 Microphone) for audio recording that I borrowed from PARADISEC at Sydney University.<br \/>\nI worked with a highly endangered Mayan language, South Eastern Huastec. It is spoken in the region of La Huasteca, in the municipality of Chontla, in the North of Veracruz, Mexico, where the majority of the population speaks this as their first language, alongside Spanish.<br \/>\nThe area of la Huasteca is tropical, with high temperatures and a very high humidity. I chose the &#8220;cold&#8221; period from October to May, with pleasant months of December and January (about 20 C during the day, and gets to low 5 C or so during the night), but very warm April and May (up to 35 C). The humidity is very high all year,  mostly 85-95%.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI used the Nagra recorder every day for a couple of hours, and I kept it in a special air tight case (by Pelican, Germany) at night.  It was very simple to use and to recharge, it is small and light and comes in a little bag. I also liked the fact that Nagra has a built-in loudspeaker (good when you want to play a recording for your consultants and you have only one pair of head phones!)  During those eight months I didn&#8217;t have any problem at all, I was very happy with the Nagra and can recommend it to field workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[from Ana Kondic at the University of Sydney] I have just spent eight months doing field work in Mexico where I used a Nagra Aress BB+ (with a Sony ECM-MS 957 Microphone) for audio recording that I borrowed from PARADISEC at Sydney University. I worked with a highly endangered Mayan language, South Eastern Huastec. It &#8230; <a title=\"Road Testing the Nagra Ares BB+ &#8211; Ana Kondic\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/10\/road-testing-the-nagra-ares-bb-ana-kondic\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Road Testing the Nagra Ares BB+ &#8211; Ana Kondic\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4051,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}