I don't know if this falls under apparatus but I'm looking for opinions on wireless headsets.
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Originally posted by dld63 View PostI don't know if this falls under apparatus but I'm looking for opinions on wireless headsets."Nemo Plus Voluptatis Quam Nos Habant"
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I've tried them at a couple of the trade shows and on one in-service apparatus, and didn't find myself very impressed with them. They seemed to work fine, but the digital audio that was being transmitted and received sounded truly, well...digital. We already know about the horrors of digital radios not being able to distinguish between loud background noise and the speaker's voice, and I worry about the same thing with these.Career Fire Captain
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Originally posted by dld63 View PostI don't know if this falls under apparatus but I'm looking for opinions on wireless headsets.Stay Safe and Well Out There....
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We had the rep from FireCom along with our radio people in to demo their wireless system after talking to a few departments that had it, and liked it. We had heard from other fire departments and FireCom themselves that the system had a working range of about 300', and a line of sight range approaching 1000'. This seemed to be more than enough range for what we would want it for (pump operator).
We got to play with a stand alone system they brought, and walked away impressed. While one of our members stayed in our board room, I wandered around outside of the building, getting to the back lawn 200'+ away and through 3-4 block walls. Our thinking is that we're going to get a single headset system for our driver, but use the base unit that has the capability to expand later on down the road if we decide to outfit the rest of the rig.
As a side, one place that I really saw a good use for these would be on our tower. Communication between the bucket and turntable is passable at best, and to be able to tie all of the people involved in the operation together with a reliable wireless communications system could have some real merits, especially when we're setting up (Sutphen 110' mid mount), as the operator is completely blind on the officer's side. Also, aerial operations would be much easier to hear commands and not have to relay messages to and from the pump operator to the bucket. They would be able to have direct communication as long as SCBA's weren't needed at the tip.
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My experience is both here and there. It is pretty cool when you and your crew can stroll around the engine while training and not have to scream into each other's ears to talk. The quality is perfectly fine, with no problems to speak of...except the fact that we did have the problem of some sort of cross wiring, magic, flux capacitor issue: sometimes the headsets randomly transmit over our dispatch channel. This can be an issue if you understand fire engine conversation.
Overall, I really like them. No yelling, hearing protection, makes you look cool.
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