So I have a nice High School P.A.C. I've got lots of wired Clear-Com gear. But there are times that a few of us need to be mobile. Yet I'm not super excited about the official option of paying $10,000-$15,000 to add 4 wireless belt packs to the system. There MUST be a better way. So I'm looking at the TW-47 walkie talkie interface and thinking for $1,000 I can get a TW-47, some killer walkie talkies, and some really nice headsets for them. I've got an MS-702 base station with the ability to activate "call on talk" and "latch disable" which I believe makes the transmission to the walkie talkies fully automatic.
Other than no-one can latch th I also want someone running the fly system to be able to not be tethered. eir talk button anymore and it's not full duplex, what are the negatives of going this route? I want them so that I as the adult in the P.A.C. can listen to what the crew kids are talking about while I'm mobile running to put out a fire. It'll annoy my stage manager that she has to push the transmit button, but that's not worth $10,000.
@Stevens R. Miller you posted about using them last summer. How are they in general? Is it worth $9,000-$14,000 to move up to the full integrated system? What are you missing using the TW-47? Do the walkie talkies degrade the audio quality of the wired system at all? I imagine they don't sound quite as crisp. Is that it?
Other than no-one can latch th I also want someone running the fly system to be able to not be tethered. eir talk button anymore and it's not full duplex, what are the negatives of going this route? I want them so that I as the adult in the P.A.C. can listen to what the crew kids are talking about while I'm mobile running to put out a fire. It'll annoy my stage manager that she has to push the transmit button, but that's not worth $10,000.
@Stevens R. Miller you posted about using them last summer. How are they in general? Is it worth $9,000-$14,000 to move up to the full integrated system? What are you missing using the TW-47? Do the walkie talkies degrade the audio quality of the wired system at all? I imagine they don't sound quite as crisp. Is that it?