Because you should no put your fly rail on a home made wireless unit, period. You NEVER want to lose com with your rail, ever.Why not? What wouldn't work? I've heard of other people who have done it with great success
I agree with what others have said about the safety issues with running home made wireless. For safety and reliability, it is worth the extra expense. Have you looked into the Eartec units? We demoed some of their Digicom systems a year or so back, and really liked them. They are compatible with Clearcom and are considerable cheaper than the Telex units. We wanted to really test them out and were able to get uniterrupted communication all the way from the rail on stage to the back of our front parking lot. This amazed us all.
~Dave
http://www.eartec.com/Wireless Wired/digicom.html
I looked in to these but from what I have heard from people are that they are really crappy. What if the phones operated on the 5.8 ghz instead? I know the school doesn't have wireless N so that won't interfere and the microwaves only effect the 2.4 right?
If it is for rigging point on a load in or load out, the small Motorola radios work pretty well. That way you do not need to yell up to the grid. If it is for fly cues during a show, why not use cue lights? That keeps one more person off the coms, but gets your job done correctly.
I keep a pair of FRS radios on hand for things like not having to yell to people, but mission critical things should never be run on substandard equipment. This is especially true for dangerous things like flys/rigging.
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