Folks,

I'm looking at doing a research study at work. We would need to record
conversations between several people moving around, inside and outside
a vehicle. It almost certainly would not be possible to find a spot to
put a stationary mic (or mics) that would would pickup the conversation
of all participants. There's discussion of using wireless mics. One
way to do this would be to get a bunch of wireless mics and receivers
and use a mixer to mix them all down the recorder. Since all
conversations will be mixed on the fly to a single track, there's not
really any need to keep the inputs separate at any point. Would it be
possible to save the cost/complexity of buying several receivers and a
mixer, by having all transmitters send on the same frequency to a
single receiver and recording from that receiver? Would that allow us
to hear everyone? Does anyone have any suggestions for other
technologoes that might accomplish this for not a lot of money?

Thanks,
-Scott McKnight