<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">One choice that may not be immediately obvious is your mobile phone. I've been using one for a few years with good results, has hands free so means a microphone right by your mouth and records to compressed files that I can then bluetooth to my laptop. Works really well for me. Doesn't offer any synchronisation features but that hasn't really been a problem.<div><br></div><div>John<br><div><br><div><div>On 17 Dec 2008, at 12:17, <a href="mailto:dcp-osm@online.de">dcp-osm@online.de</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div id="bodyElement" style="overflow-x: visible; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">I could not find any recommendations for suitable hardware for recording (with synchronisation)<span></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>voice messages for use with my Garmin 60CSx.</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>It would certainly be easier than using my camera.</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>Anybody got any pertinent recommendations.</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>As I don't have any experience (yet) what I need to know</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>is what is the most practical hardware to use?</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>Obviously some equipment available is junk:</span><span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>I know that but right now I cannot separate the junk from the usable stuff.<br></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span></span><span></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span>Got any ideas<br></span></div><basefont size="2" face="Verdana">_______________________________________________<br>newbies mailing list<br><a href="mailto:newbies@openstreetmap.org">newbies@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>