Last week offered a very interesting challenge. Working for the Department Of International Development (DFID) Delta Sound supplied the Audio system and critical interface for a phone call with a difference. Pen Hadow is on a trek to the Artic to discover how quickly Sea ice is melting and was asked to be a guest speaker at the DFID convention, a challenge so to speak as we has thousands of miles away and in a considerably less tropical climate. Delta Sound provided all Audio interfaces and below is an extract from Pens Daily blog with regards the Phone call.
%u201CFinally a chance to speak with some of the world's most influential climate change leaders.
What a weird feeling - here we are floating on the ice in the Arctic, and I've just had a chat with International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander and over 300 people in the audience at the Department for International Development conference on world poverty, which is being held in London.
He was asking me questions about the purpose of the Catlin Arctic Survey and why I thought it was so important.
The sat phone seemed to be pretty clear at my end and, despite the howling winds outside, I think they all heard me.
I tried to convey that climate change and the loss of the sea ice up here will affect everybody on the planet - unpredictable weather changes, rises in sea levels are all linked to food shortages and poverty.
I don't know if this is the first live link done to a conference like this, but I heard afterwards that Lord Nick Stern complained - tongue-in-cheek - that nobody had called him when he was in the Antarctic!
I'm really pleased it all worked and I hear that Gordon Brown turned up to round off just after my call."
