For those not familiar with LiDAR, there is an article about locating mallee fowl mounds with some excellent examples of the results...latest e-mag
Bush Heritage Australia site
www.bushheritage.org.au
Regarding HF radio as with AE...wasnt there some mix-up/ Murphys Law built in with the aerial switch box number and the HF number not matching,
ie Switch 2 was for frequency 5 ?? or some such. From Long's book ??
And then there were the transmit and receive times... and differing time zones, clock settings for that.
And probably a gremlin or two sitting on the wing...watching and waiting !
After the long day and thru the night and then on to ...wherever, AE must have been 'bombed out' of her brain with fatigue, discomfort, lack of sleep and noise.