using CDs

[ken phipps]

I'm interested in knowing what you use for sound equipment to play the Purple Martin CDs. Something that attaches to the house or pole that is blue tooth controlled would be nice for ease of use but could run extension cord if need be

[LoneOakMartin]

I don't use the CD, but I bought a blue tooth speaker, paired it with my laptop. I play the daytime chatter on youtube. I set it next to my gourd racks and have had several lookers now. Had a pair yesterday that stayed all day going in & out of one gourd. We've had rain all day today, but when it stopped, I took the speaker back out to the pole and within 5 minutes, I had a female sitting on the rack.

[flyin-lowe]

This day and age a BT speaker and just an iPad, iphone or anything else should be simple enough to program to start and stop. Back when I started I bought CD player alarm clock from Wal Mart that had dual alarms. I would just set it in a trash bag and up off the ground on a crate or something. If I remember right the CD was 75 minutes or somtehing like that. I would set the first alarm for 4 am and the second alarm 5:30. That one would still be running when I got up for work. When I left for work I would hit play one more time so it would go until about 7;30 or 8. I would put the player under the eave of my pole barn at my old house and on my front porch at the place I am currently at. The sound doesn't have to be right by the housing, as long as you draw them in from up above, they will see your housing.